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Sodom and Gomorrah were the ancient cities on the Dead Sea, or simply a biblical characters?
Genesis 23:26 says. “The sun came when Lot came to Zoar suddenly the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed them and the whole valley in the people and everything that grows on the ground. But Lot’s wife looked back and became a pillar of salt “. In addition to this biblical story and the subsequent interpretation of the events of this short article describes some of the geological research that shows that Sodom and Gomorrah is on the edge of the Dead Sea is said to have given forms that are now on the border between Israel and Jordan. Jonathan Tubb, assistant curator of the Middle East department at the British Museum began research with Professor Lynne Frostick, a geologist at the University of Hull. Based on the principle that it was unlikely that a significant population could survive what is now a dry and inhospitable, the Bronze Age (1800 BCE-2350 BCE) has been studied.
The archaeological work at Tell es-Sa’idyeh site north of Dead Sea, the evidence in the form of an oil mill lifestyle of discerning the Bronze Age, which had not produced during this period expressed. It was a positive proof in support of the research team. Since the Bible, which speaks of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is a forensic anthropologist with Professor Mike Finnegan American who had already studied the remains of three skeletons of male Numeira near the Dead Sea. Finnegan said the three men had died after receiving crushing injuries that could have been an earthquake caused by a stone building on them. Radiocarbon dating of the remains of the wooden fence, or the date fixed to 2350 a. C. – The Bronze Age.
In addition to the work of geologists led by Israeli Shmuel Marco, founded by local disturbances, an earthquake of at least six possible on the Richter scale. If Sodom and Gomorrah because they were the remains archaeologists to study? Lynne Frostick describes a phenomenon called liquefaction, a process where an earthquake of land units on the surface, turn on the water. Therefore, all buildings on the slope would be swept away and disappear completely. Despite the hard work done on the Dead Sea, there is a clear confirmation that Sodom and Gomorrah was discovered there. However, there was insufficient evidence to prove that it was possible for cities to function in this environment. The debate continued on Sodom and Gomorrah if only a sign of a biblical story.
Neil Asher Silberman Director of Archaeology, Archaeological Institute of America, a publication, said: “This is Noah’s Ark. The real challenge for biblical archaeologists today is not the search for long-lost cities, but also to understand why old formula. these powerful myths of Israel. ” For those who have described the information, provides for the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Jericho and Neev and Emery-depth analysis of the archaeological research in this article.