Archeologists claim new location for Sodom and Gomorrah in Jordan
Pastor Dale Morgan
Archeologists claim new location for Sodom and Gomorrah in Jordan*
on Saturday, January 26 @ 12:02:28 CST
An international excavation team of archeologists led by Dr. Steven
Collins, an expert on Biblical archeology from US Trinity Southwestern
University, have claimed finding new evidence proving that the Biblical
sites of Sodom and Gomorrah - two cities cited in Bible as "destroyed by
God for their sins"- were located in Jordan's Tall al-Hammam in north of
the Dead Sea, rather than attributed location in the south of the Dead Sea.
One of the archeologists in the excavation team said, "One of the
interesting things about Tall al-Hammam is what we called a MB gap, that
is the period of time between the Middle Bronze Age and Iron Age,
because in normal locations like this, you have occupations one right on
top of the other, but here, something very unique, something very
significant took place in the Middle Bronze Age.
The city was destroyed by an event that was so dramatic that it scared
everybody away for seven hundred years. Here, in this square, there's
the perfect example. You have Iron Age foundations that are built right
into a Middle Bronze Age rampart."
Many people located Sodom and Gomorrah towards the south of the Dead Sea
but the reason that they choose the north of the Dead Sea is that
historically, most ancient people--even scholars of the 19th century
chose the northern Dead Sea for Sodom because the Biblical text is very
clear about the location.
Agencies (HAKIM.A)