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May 25, 2024 · In the article “Where Is Sodom?” archaeologist Steven Collins, using clues from the Biblical geography of Genesis 13 together with archaeological evidence from the site of Tall el-Hammam (pictured), argues that Biblical tradition located Sodom in a fertile area northeast of the Dead Sea. Photo: Michael C. Luddeni.
Sep 20, 2021 · Scientists have found evidence of a cosmic airburst event around 1650 BCE that devastated the ancient city of Tall el-Hammam in the southern Jordan Valley, causing extreme temperatures and depositing high concentrations of salt.
Jan 1, 2021 · Even though the locations of three of the Cities of the Plain remain elusive, evidence is strong that the two most important, Sodom and Gomorrah, have been found. Map of the area south of the Dead Sea, showing the proposed locations of the Biblical Cities of the Plain.
Apr 20, 2022 · But when Steven Collins, the principal archaeologist at Tall el-Hammam, considered the scientists’ evidence in an article that ran last year in the respected scientific journal Nature, he...
Jun 28, 2023 · Almost a century before Collins launched his exploration in 2001, famed archaeologist William F. Albright set out to explore the southeastern end of the Dead Sea in 1924 in hopes of finding Sodom and Gomorrah. Albright’s theory was that rising sea waters covered the location of the city’s ruins.
Jun 7, 2018 · But there’s little evidence of volcanic activity near the Dead Sea. Therefore, some researchers think a more plausible location of Sodom and Gomorrah is southern Syria, where an eruption did occur at a time when the cities are thought to have existed, around the early or middle Bronze Age.
In the Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah (/ ˈ s ɒ d ə m /; / ɡ ə ˈ m ɒr ə /) were two cities destroyed by God for their wickedness. Their story parallels the Genesis flood narrative in its theme of God's anger provoked by man's sin (see Genesis 19:1–28).
Sep 20, 2021 · We present evidence that in ~ 1650 BCE (~ 3600 years ago), a cosmic airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, a Middle-Bronze-Age city in the southern Jordan Valley northeast of the Dead Sea.
Feb 17, 2011 · There's no agreement among archaeologists, scientists and Biblical scholars that Sodom, and its sister town Gomorrah, existed at all - let alone that it came to a sudden and apocalyptic end.
May 6, 2024 · Sodom and Gomorrah, notoriously sinful cities in the book of Genesis, destroyed by ‘sulfur and fire’ because of their wickedness (Genesis 19:24). The cities are referenced throughout both the Old and New Testament and the Qur’an. Learn about the biblical account and significance of the cities’ destruction.
