‘Wiped Out In The Blink Of An Eye’: Archaeologist Claims He Has Found The Biblical City Of Sodom

An archaeologist claimed in an interview published in late June that he has identified the ancient Biblical site where Sodom once stood.

Trinity Southwest University’s Dean of Archaeology Steven Collins told host of the Rosenberg Report, Joel C. Rosenberg, that he and his team believe the Tell el-Hammam site in Jordan appears to have many of the markers of Sodom. The site is reportedly scattered with Bronze-age remains that appear to have been melted in a “flash heat” situation, matching the Biblical account of how Sodom burned to the ground.

“As soon as we get a few centimeters into that [Bronze Age] matrix, this piece of pottery, the shoulder of a storage jar, is facing up at us. And it looks like it’s glazed,” Collins told Rosenberg. Another member of Collins’ team remarked that the scars looked similar to those witnessed at the Trinity nuclear test site in New Mexico where the first atomic bomb was detonated.

Previous reports on the site suggest that the site was decimated by a meteor-impact some 4,000-years-ago. This cataclysm has yet to be confirmed, but evidence shows a “charcoal-rich destruction layer” and a series of melted objects, according to a study published in Nature.

The study suggested that the site was “wiped out in the blink of an eye,” Collins noted.

He went on to claim that “there are at least 25 known pieces of geography [in Scripture] that you can triangulate between to take you to the city of Sodom.” For example, Genesis 13:10 states that when Lot was at Bethel and Ai, he traveled eastwards. Tall el-Hammam is east of Bethel and Ai.

22 posted on 07/11/2023 12:31:51 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)

23 posted on 07/11/2023 12:36:53 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)

Sodom...I thought it was on the Potomac ?

No, silly. Sodom is on the southwest side of Lake Michigan.

27 posted on 07/11/2023 1:09:44 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))

Let me know when they come up with a pillar of salt.

One of the best stories in the Bible. Really struck me at heart when I was a kid at St. William School. I knew danged well after hearing about Lot’s wife that, if I had been there, there’s be two pillars.

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Dead Sea sediment analyses show 15,000-year-old climate phase periods [05/02/2022]
The scientific meltdown over a controversial discovery of 'biblical Sodom' [05/02/2022]
Elamite clay tablet unearthed in mysterious Burnt City [01/02/2022]
Fire and Brimstone: A Giant Space Rock Demolished an Ancient Middle Eastern City and Everyone in It [09/27/2021]
Sodom and Gomorrah? Evidence That a Cosmic Impact Destroyed a Biblical City in the Jordan Valley [09/23/2021]
World's longest salt cave discovered in Israel (near pillar named "Lot's wife") [03/28/2019]
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Middle East fossils push back origin of key plant groups millions of years [12/21/2018]
Archeologists: Sodom and Gomorrah literally destroyed by fire and brimstone falling from the sky [12/11/2018]
Cosmic Airburst May Have Wiped Out Part of the Middle East 3,700 Years Ago [11/29/2018]
Scientists: 'superheated blast from the sky' destroyed Dead Sea cities, pointing to Sodom in Bible [11/28/2018]
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Hi.

How close is this find to Gomorrah? To Zora? The river Jordan?

Asking for a friend.

5.56mm

Zoar.

Sheesh.

5.56mm

Fag Churches selling annual pilgrimage packages to their new holy site

The fag pope approves and wants a cut of the ticket sales

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