Scientists: Sodom destroyed by "overheating of the sky"

A scientific study aligns with the biblical account of the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by the fire and sulfur of the heavens.

The book of Genesis tells the story of God sending two angels to save Lot and his family from a city where men demanded to be "intimate" with men visiting, one the clearest biblical condemnations of homosexuality. In response,

It would be hundreds of years before life returns to the region.

And now, scientists have in this area, even if they do not attribute it to God.

According to Science News, archaeologist Phillip Silvia of Trinity University Southwest in Albuquerque concluded to an "overheated explosion of the sky … destroyed towns and farm villages north of the Dead Sea about 3,700 years ago" .

Siliva discovered that "radiocarbon dating and released minerals that instantly crystallized at high temperatures indicate an aerial explosion caused by a meteor that exploded into the atmosphere instantly destroyed civilization in a circular plain of 25". kilometers wide called Middle Ghor.

According to Science News, the event "also pushed a bubbling brine of Dead Sea salts onto once fertile farmland, suspects Silvia and her colleagues."

Silvia has reported the findings recently at an annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

"Excavations at five large sites in the Middle Ghor, in what is now Jordan, indicate that all were continuously occupied for at least 2,500 years until a sudden collective collapse towards the end of the Middle Ages. bronze. Field studies have located 120 other smaller localities in the area that, according to the researchers, have also been exposed to extreme heat and winds leading to collapse. It is estimated that about 40,000 to 65,000 people were living in the Middle Ghor when the cosmic calamity hit, Silvia said, Science News said.

Silvia has been excavating in the area for more than a decade and radiocarbon dating suggests that the mud brick walls have suddenly disappeared, leaving "only stone foundations".

In addition, the outer layers of many pieces of pottery from the same period show signs of melting glass. Zircon crystals in these vitreous layers formed in one second at extremely high temperatures, perhaps as hot as the sun's surface, said Silvia, "according to the report.

And tiny fragments of rock were found on pottery fragments, suggesting that it "rained".

The researchers likened it to an event in Siberia in 1908, in which an apparent meteor exploded in the air, destroying 2,000 square kilometers of forest.

Another incident in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013, injured some 1,600 people.

Scientists have long believed that evidence suggested that a meteor had struck Sodom and Gomorrah, but there was no evidence of a crater.

Then they turned "their eyes to heaven."

Silvia and her team concluded that "the destruction not only of Tall el-Hammam (Sodom), but also of its neighbors (Gomorra and the other cities of the plain) was most likely caused by a meteorological event.

"The scientific explanation clearly reflects the biblical description of the destruction of twin cities of evil located in the same region," he wrote.

the Bible says that ancient cities have been "wiped out by God for the sinful behavior of their people".

According to the report, modern scientists describe these events as "a major calamity".

The impact has also pushed Dead Sea saltwater into the land, devastating the soil and preventing the once fertile region from producing crops.