Dead Sea sediment core

Israeli scientists are drilling into the sea bed of the Dead Sea in the hope of extracting a sediment core going back several hundred thousand years. This will provide geological and archaeological information that will take years to analyse piece by small piec as it should pigeon hole periods of drought and flood, and changing climate over time. Both Israeli and Palestinian scientists are said to be involved in the project and it is thought one thing that will show up quite clearly is a history of earthquake activity in the Jordan Valley as relevant layers will not line up. Hence, a search for Biblical earthquakes will take place but what might they discover at the boundaries of the bronze ages? The story is at www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/sns-ap-ml-israel-dead-sea-treasures,0,16