The ancient biblical city of Sodom was real, destroyed by the massive explosion of asteroids, say archaeologists

The explosion has lined the map several settlements located around the Dead Sea, making it uninhabitable for centuries.

The ancient biblical city of Sodom was not only a real place, it was also destroyed by fire from heaven, as the Bible claims. However, according to archaeologists, this fire took the form of a "massive explosion of asteroids" in the air above the region, in a controversial new set of results announced this week.

As Newsweek According to some reports, some historians believed that there might be something in the history of the Old Testament of Sodom and Gomorrah. For those unfamiliar, Genesis 18-19 describes how God, angry at the wickedness of men in both cities, destroyed them both by fire. And while few serious scientists thought the cities had been destroyed by the wrath of an avenging god, some have considered the possibility that the cities were destroyed by a meteor strike.

New evidence seems to support this theory.

Phillip Silvia, of Trinity Southwest University in Albuquerque, and his team published their findings this week at the annual meeting of American schools of Oriental research in Denver, Colorado.

Silvia's team believes that the possible site of the city known as "Sodom" would actually be a Bronze Age settlement in the Dead Sea, known as Tall el-Hammam, which would have destroyed about 3,700 years ago.

Using radiocarbon dating, Silvia's team dated from the abandonment of the colony to the approximate time of the alleged biblical event. A "heat event", possibly caused by the friction or explosion of a meteor while it was crossing the atmosphere over the area, heated the structures to soil to the point that the bricks were reduced to ashes, according to the report. Israel weather. Some materials crystallized instantly and the outer parts of some pottery fragments were melted into glass, also suggesting an extreme rise in temperature.

The event, says Silvia's team, also heated up the soil until it was deprived of its nutrients – which would explain why a series of once flourishing colonies would be suddenly abandoned and then brought back to centuries later.

"That the most productive agricultural lands in the region, which had supported flourishing civilizations for at least 3,000 years, suddenly give up and then oppose human habitation for such a long time asked for an investigation. "

Meteors do not need to hit the ground to cause unimaginable damage. One of the largest meteorological events in recorded history involved a meteor (or perhaps a comet) that exploded in midair rather than hitting the ground. The 1908 event in Tunguska, for example, was allegedly caused by a space rock that exploded at a certain altitude above the ground, skirting tens of thousands of square kilometers of forest. Fortunately, this happened in a remote area and has so far not been attributed to human death.