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==Archaeological and Sodom==

==Archaeological and Sodom==

[[Image:sodom1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Location of the Ancient City of Sodom near the Dead Sea.]]

[[Image:sodom1.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Remains of the ancient city of Bab edh-Dhra, thought by some to be Sodom]]

According to archaeologists, the city of Sodom has been plausibly identified with [[Tall el-Hammam]] by the archaeologist [[Steven Collins]],<ref>Collins, Steven, and Latayne C. Scott. Discovering the City of Sodom: The Fascinating, True Account of the Discovery of the Old Testament's Most Infamous City. Simon and Schuster, 2016.</ref> a site that sits north-east of the [[Dead Sea]] in the [[Jordan]]. Tall el-Hammam was destroyed by an airburst event during the Middle Bronze Age II, which, according to the great egyptologist [[Kenneth Kitchen]],<ref>Kitchen, Kenneth Anderson. On the reliability of the Old Testament. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2003. 313-372.</ref> the time of the patriarchs took place and thus the time when Sodom should have been destroyed in the archaeological record.

According to archaeologists, the city of Sodom has been plausibly identified with [[Tall el-Hammam]] by the archaeologist [[Steven Collins]],<ref>Collins, Steven, and Latayne C. Scott. Discovering the City of Sodom: The Fascinating, True Account of the Discovery of the Old Testament's Most Infamous City. Simon and Schuster, 2016.</ref> a site that sits north-east of the [[Dead Sea]] in the [[Jordan]]. Tall el-Hammam was destroyed by an airburst event during the Middle Bronze Age II, which, according to the great egyptologist [[Kenneth Kitchen]],<ref>Kitchen, Kenneth Anderson. On the reliability of the Old Testament. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2003. 313-372.</ref> the time of the patriarchs took place and thus the time when Sodom should have been destroyed in the archaeological record.