Death from above? Fireball may have destroyed ancient Syrian village

Live Science ^ | 20 June 2020 | Nola Taylor Redd

[BenLurkin]

This might have been previously covered?

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Related:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2018/12/04/new-science-suggests-biblical-city-of-sodom-was-smote-by-an-exploding-meteor/#1c01c3da5c67

[Steely Tom]

Sodom?

[Fungi]

I’ll stay with the Biblical account.

[ncalburt]

interesting

[faithhopecharity]

no, it was an IDF secret weapon

[Pollster1]

I may have read something similar, but the original account does not quite describe a bucolic village . . .

Genesis 19:24-25 “Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah - from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities - and also the vegetation in the land.”

[jetson]

Thor.

[desertfreedom765]

A piece of the Clovis comet?

The timing is about right.

[freedumb2003]

Let that be a lesson: never substitute the town slut in a virgin sacrifice.

[Alas Babylon!]

Don't forget me...

In reading this story, I mentioned to my son, Sodom and Gomorrah, and he asked me if I meant her!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Wrong area.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin. And all these years I thought Detroit was Rock City.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin, nice find! I don't think this has been covered, but if it has, I don't even care, not least because of my geriatric memory loss.

[SunkenCiv]

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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

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[j.havenfarm]

Sounds like a mini-Tunguska incident

[SunkenCiv]

Sodom?

Uh, no. Wrong era, wrong spot, utterly unrelated. Try this keyword:

tallelhammam

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Related as to type of natural disaster.

[SunkenCiv]

:^) Only if Tell Hamman is the site of one of the Cities of the Plain.