According to the paper’s abstract, the scientists discovered evidence of a “high-heat” explosive event north of the Dead Sea that instantaneously “devastated approximately 500 km².” >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Mythology agrees with this finding.
Many have concluded long ago that the blast was nuclear in origin, explaining the highly radioactive salt springs in the Southwestern area of the Dead Sea, ostensibly caused by the presumed fallout.
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ancientatomicwar/esp_ancient_atomic_02.htm
This nuclear destruction was also recorded in the Lamentations of Sumer and is said to have occurred around 2000 BCE.
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The Lamentations of Sumer, a group of very ancient historical texts which recount the pitiful and heartbreaking desolation of the cities of the Mesopotamian lands around the year 2000 BCE, describe the effects of the destruction in even more detail than the equivalent biblical account. First, the Lamentations make it clear that the destruction was not by any natural calamity but rather a great storm decreed by Anu. Second, the texts detail that the great storm of Anu was the result of an enormous explosion described as a malefic blast that was the forerunner of a malignant storm. Third, the cruel punishment that Anu decreed is described as a razing storm joined by a scorching heat. Here we see that the storm of Anu doesn’t refer to a meteorological tempest but rather to a column of fire that scorches everything that it touches. Fourth, the same scary phenomenon not only burned the earth but also deprived the earth of the shining sun of the day and made the stars of the night invisible. The smoke of the storm of fire reached up to the sky and blocked out the solar light completely, something that wouldn’t happen with a normal storm. Fifth, in the following days an evil wind seized the inhabitants, made their faces turn pale, made them cough up blood and polluted the water of the rivers making it bitter and deadly. Sixth, the texts recount that after the razing of the cities the agricultural fields and the prairies were contaminated and gave bad weeds and shriveled plants.”
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The ancient texts of Sumer indicate, Sodom and Gomorrah were cities of the god Marduk, lost in a holocaust to the Anunaki. Marduk was forced to evacuate the earth and lost the war with the Anu.The civilizations of Egypt and babylon remained loyal to Marduk and preserve what was left of a defeated kingship forced to flee the Earth, so the Sumerian history indicates.
All of this barely makes any sense to the modern mind, but we are left with radioactive salt deposits and radioactive springs in the area where Sodom and Gomorrah likely existed,along with soil patterns like those found at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all that is left are the foundations of buildings , quite large foundations indicating a substantial city state.
The biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah is said to be a restatement of the Sumerian legends of the final battle between the forces of Marduk and the Anu in which 7 nuclear weapons were dropped in and around the the Dead Sea area, a battle between the forces of Earth and Heaven which is so much a part of world mythology from Japan to Babylon, Egypt and various ancient civilizations in South America.
You have it backwards.
http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/myths/texts/lamentations/lamentur.html
excerpt:
Enlil called the storm. The people mourn.
Winds of abundance he took from the land. The people mourn.
Bood winds he took away from Sumer. the people mourn.
Deputed evil winds. The people mourn.
Entrusted them to Kingaluda, tender of storms.
He called the storm that annihilates the land. The people mourn.
He called disastrous winds. The people mourn.
Enlil — choosing Gibil as his helper —
called the (great) hurricane of heaven. The people mourn.
The (blinding) hurricane howling across the skies — the people mourn —
the tempest unsubduable like breaks through levees,
beats down upon, devours the city’s ships,
(all these) he gathered at the base of heaven. The people mourn.
(Great) fires he lit that heralded the storm. The people mourn.
And lit on either flank of furious winds the searing heat of the desert.
Like flaming heat of noon this fire scorched.
The storm ordered by Enlil in hate, the storm which wears away the country,
covered Ur like a cloth, veiled it like a linen sheet.
On that day did the storm leave the city; that city was a ruin.
O father Nanna, that town was left a ruin. The people mourn.
On that day did the storm leave the country. The people mourn.
Its people(’s corpses), not potsherds,
littered the approaches.
The walls were gaping;
the high gates, the roads,
were piled with dead.
In the wide streets, where feasting crowds (once) gathered, jumbled they lay.
In all the streets and roadways bodies lay.
In open fields that used to fill with dancers,
the people lay in heaps.
The country’s blood now filled its holes, like metal in a mold;
bodies dissolved — like butter left in the sun.
The biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorrah is said to be a restatement of the Sumerian legends
No, the Hebrews were eyewitnesses.
Does this possibly relate to the 2000 BCE crater that was found in the Iraq marshes after Saddam Hussein drained them? There could have been several items that fell more or less at the same time like the Shumacher-Levy train of objects the hit Jupiter in one day a few years ago.
I don’t think it’s a restatement but one of written perspective. The “Angel of the Lord” speaks to Abraham directly about his plans for Sodom and Gomorrah...why should Sumerian writers(probably writing decades or centuries after the fact) have known about what God said to Abraham directly and similarly why should Abraham have been told of the the coming destruction of the cities of Mesopotamia...which now makes sense of the story as to why Abraham was told to leave UR instead of God making a great nation with Abraham’s descendants right there in good old Mesopotamia. Why make Abraham move?.... because God was going to wreak great destruction in that area. Abraham lived to be 175 years so his life span could have straddled over the major events of that time.
That crater could have been dated a little earlier or later especially if nuclear elements had been involved since dating the site by isotopic means would have been negated by any nuclear fallout or even meteoric means. One is left trying to use weathering factors but that also means you need to fudge and accept a plus or minus factor. If there is truth about linking the Mesopotamian destruction with the cities of the “ticar” plain on the Northeast coast of the Dead Sea at the mouth of the Jordan then the best dating seems to come in at about 1770 bc. Oh and the Minoan civilization was also taken out about that time...hmmmmm! No wonder the Bible speaks of Sodom and Gomorrah being examples to the nations of God’s judgment.