Sodom found?
September 24, 2021 at 8:42 pm
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2021 at 8:42 pm by HappySkeptic.)
Sodom and Gomorrah were cities in the book of Genesis, which were destroyed by fire from the sky for their sins (everyone was horny and liked male angels).
Lot was a good man and was warned, but his wife looked back at the destruction and was turned into a pillar of salt.
As mentioned in Wikipedia, Tall el-Hammam in the Jordan valley near the Dead Sea has been proposed as one historical site for Sodom, if Sodom was in fact a real place that was destroyed.
Well, according to https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-0...78-3#Sec68 , the best explanation for the archaeological investigation of Tall el-Hammam was that it was destroyed by a meteorite airburst, of larger magnitude than the Tunguska Event in 1908. This also seems to have spread salt from the Dead Sea over a large area of land, making it infertile for 100s of years.
Could it be that this ridiculous story was originally inspired by a real event?
Lot was a good man and was warned, but his wife looked back at the destruction and was turned into a pillar of salt.
As mentioned in Wikipedia, Tall el-Hammam in the Jordan valley near the Dead Sea has been proposed as one historical site for Sodom, if Sodom was in fact a real place that was destroyed.
Well, according to https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-0...78-3#Sec68 , the best explanation for the archaeological investigation of Tall el-Hammam was that it was destroyed by a meteorite airburst, of larger magnitude than the Tunguska Event in 1908. This also seems to have spread salt from the Dead Sea over a large area of land, making it infertile for 100s of years.
Could it be that this ridiculous story was originally inspired by a real event?