An asteroid could be the scientific cause of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah narrated in the Bible
An asteroid may have destroyed one of the most fertile areas in the Middle East and would be the scientific cause of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah narrated in the Bible. Renamed asteroid of Sodom and Gomorrah, it would have also determined the total abandonment of all those lands for 300-600 years.
A vast and very fertile territory in the Middle East was abandoned about 3600 years ago and until now the reason had always remained a mystery, even if the suspicion that a natural catastrophic event was hidden behind the biblical story has always been there.
The research was conducted on the remains of the ancient Middle Eastern city of Tall el-Hammam, in the southern Jordan Valley: archaeological excavations have brought to light the remains of a destruction, which occurred around 1650 BC: the data collected, in particular, suggest how did aexplosion in the atmosphere a few kilometers southwest of Tall el-Hammam, which caused a high-temperature heat wave that in turn melted the most exposed artifacts, including roofs, bricks and ceramic objects, which would be followed by a wave shock at high temperature and very high speed that literally pulverized the mud brick walls, clearing the city and causing a incalculable number of deaths.
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Such devastation would have been felt tens of kilometers away, thus causing the abandonment of nearby villages and towns. This reconstruction would explain why a territory, at the time among the most fertile on the planet, was completely abandoned.
We present evidence that in ~ 1650 BC (~ 3600 years ago), acosmic air explosion destroyed Tall el-Hammam, a Middle Bronze Age city in the southern Jordan Valley northeast of the Dead Sea - the researchers write - This explosion was more violent than that of 1908 over Tunguska, Russia, where a fireball 50 m wide, it exploded charged with an energy one thousand times higher than that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
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But what would have caused the explosion?
Everything leads to think that it was a cosmic explosion, or that of an asteroid, then renamed the asteroid of Sodom and Gomorrah.
According to the researchers, temperatures exceeded 2000 ° C, and the roar demolished towering buildings with incredibly thick walls, while causing theatrocious death of many human beings, literally disintegrated., the inhibition of agriculture and therefore the abandonment of about 120 regional settlements for a period of 300-600 years within a radius of 25 km.
Tall el-Hammam could therefore be the second ancient city destroyed by a cosmic explosion / impact, after Abu Hureyra, in Syria, and possibly the first site with an oral tradition that has been written.
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The sun was rising on the earth ... when the Lord made it rain from heaven on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord. He destroyed these cities and the whole valley with all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation of the soil. Abraham ... contemplated Sodom and Gomorrah from above and the whole expanse of the valley and saw that a smoke rose from the earth, like the smoke of a furnace
Genesis, Bible
The work was published in Scientific Reports.
Sources of reference: Scientific Reports
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