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