Archeologists: Sodom and Gomorrah literally destroyed by fire and brimstone falling from the sky

December 11, 2018 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of archeologists and other scientists say they have discovered strong evidence that the region of the “Middle Ghor,” where the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are believed to have existed, were in fact destroyed by a meteor that exploded in the sky above, raining down superheated matter and raising temperatures to thousands of degrees, a theory that matches the account of the cities’ destruction contained in the Old Testament Book of Genesis.

According to the theory, the meteor exploded at low altitude with the force of a ten megaton atomic bomb at an altitude of about one kilometer over the northeast corner of the Dead Sea, and obliterated all of civilization in the 25-kilometer-wide circular plain that constitutes the “Middle Ghor.”

The researchers presented preliminary findings on the subject at this year’s annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research in November, and have been developing the theory since at least 2015. They state that the evidence from radiocarbon dating indicates that a group of civilizations flourished in the area for over two millennia, until approximately 1700 BC, when the mud-brick walls of the buildings in the region simultaneously disappeared and only the stone foundations remained.

At the same time, the pottery in the settlements was heated into glass in the space of milliseconds, according to the results of an analysis of the Zircon crystals formed in the process, indicating that they were briefly exposed to temperatures of approximately 4000 to 12000 degrees Celsius, comparable to the temperature of the surface of the sun.

The explosion rained down platinum as well as molten lava on the region, according to two of the archeologists, and this further confirms that a meteor was the source, given that platinum is found in higher concentrations in meteors than on earth.

Approximately 40,000 to 60,000 people living in the region were killed, and a 500-square kilometer area was rendered uninhabitable for 600 to 700 years, the researchers estimate. They believe that the area was stripped of its topsoil, and that salts from the nearby Dead Sea were spread over the land, destroying its fertility.

The settlements that were annihilated in the event include the principal excavation site, “Tall el-Hammam,” which the archeologists believe is the city of Sodom, whose destruction is recounted in the Book of Genesis, chapter 19. The approximate date of the annihilation also matches the time period corresponding to the event in Genesis, according to archeologists.

The research has been carried out by the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project (TeHEP) by a team of scientists from various universities and scientific institutes, including New Mexico Tech, Northern Arizona University, North Carolina State University, Elizabeth City (NC) State University, DePaul University, Trinity Southwest University, and Los Alamos National Laboratories.

Close correlation with the Book of Genesis, chapter 19

Two archeologists involved in the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project, Steven Collins and Phillip Silvia, wrote in a 2015 conference paper that “the physical evidence from Tall el-Hammam and neighboring sites exhibit signs of a highly destructive concussive and thermal event that one might expect from what is described in Genesis 19.”

“The soil/ash samples gathered from Tall el-Hammam contain evidence of top-soil destruction and sub-soil contamination with Dead Sea salts that would have prevented the cultivation of crops for many centuries following the event, which explains (in part, at least) the long occupational hiatus,” they add.

According to the ninth chapter of the Book of Genesis, verse 24, “The Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven,” a statement that matches well the high temperatures and superheated stones that would have rained from the sky in such an event.

The Hebrew word for “brimstone” is normally applied to sulfur, which is a stone that burns.

Genesis 19 also seems to describe the general devastation in the region, including the loss of plant life discovered by the archeologists, stating in verse 25, “And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.”

“The country about” is the Hebrew word “hakkikkar,” which refers to a plain seated between mountains, or a valley. Archeologists believe this area to be the Middle Ghor.

Genesis adds that Abraham “looked towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and the whole land of that country: and he saw the ashes rise up from the earth as the smoke of a furnace.”

Genesis and other books of the Bible state that Sodom was destroyed in retribution for the sexual perversion of the inhabitants, particularly their desire for sexual relations with the same sex, which the Scripture calls an “abomination.”

The New Testament Letter of Jude likens fires that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah to the “eternal fire” of hell.

“Sodom and Gomorrah, and the neighboring cities...having given themselves to fornication, and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire,” the letter states in chapter one.

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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.”

https://www.enkiptahsatya.com/17-the-annihilation-of-sodom-and-gomorrah-and-the-creation-of-the-people-of-anu.html

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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.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3707787/posts?page=45#45

THE OVERTHROW OF THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN

The rift in which the Lake of Galilee, the Jordan, and the Dead Sea lie is the deepest depression on any continent. The surface of the Dead Sea is close to 400 meters below the level of the Mediterranean, and its deepest bottom is some 320 meters lower still. The shore falls steeply from the Judean mountains on the west; on the eastern side of the rift rise the Moabite mountains. The walls of the chasm show sharp broken strata that remained horizontal, which proves that the breaking down was instantaneous.(6) The force which caused this slide movement must have been stupendous. The ground of the rift around the Dead Sea is covered with coagulated lava masses, taking the form of an immense herd of giant elephants with rough skin. These lava eruptions from fissures are ascribed to the second interglacial period.(7) To the south end of the Dead Sea towers a big cliff of salt called Jebel Usdum (Mount of Sodom). “It is absolutely impossible that the salt sediment of a sea should precipitate in such a form.” (8) “Only the rupture of the ground could create this site, singular in the entire world.”

http://www.varchive.org/itb/overthrow.htm

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