The five sites were mostly in what is now the northern basin of the Dead Sea, which is the only basin right now, the shallow southern basin dried up, as it did in or just before Roman times. The “little” town was on higher ground, and I think there’s a reference to its ruins in the OT somewhere when the Israelites were preparing to reenter Canaan. The kings who came from the east to beat their asses were led by the Elamite king Chedorlaomer (Kudur-Lagamar) and his vassal kings from areas he’d conquered, or his predecessors had conquered, and some of them were from what is now Iraq.
Thanks. Interesting stuff.