About 3600 years ago, it turned out that the whole big city was blown away and destroyed by a big explosion caused by a meteorite fall, is it a model of 'Sodom and Gomorrah'?


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Excavation of archaeological sites in the Jordan Valley revealed that a city that prospered around 1650 BC, in the middle of the Bronze Age, had disappeared due to an explosion of about 12 megatons in TNT equivalent. The scale of the explosion is about 1000 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, far surpassing the Tunguska event, which is said to be the largest explosion in history, and the cause is thought to be the fall of a meteorite.

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This excavation was conducted by a joint research team of the Faculty of Archeology at Belitas International University in the United States, the Faculty of Archeology at Trinity Southwest University, and the Hashmit Archaeological Department in Jordan. The excavated ruins are located on the northern side of the Dead Sea, on a hill in the southern part of the Jordan Valley, where there was a city called 'Tall El Hammam'. It was the middle of the Bronze Age.



Thor el Hammam is said to have existed since about 4700 BC and was said to have prospered for about 3000 years until it was destroyed in 1650 BC. In addition, it is 10 times larger than

Jerusalem and 5 times larger than Jericho , making it the largest city in southern Levant 3600 years ago. However, nowadays, the place where Thor El Hammam was said to have been relatively flat and disc-shaped wilderness.

The following a (upper image) is a palace forecast map that was thought to have been in Thor el Hammam before it was destroyed, and b (lower image) is the current appearance. The palace is believed to have an area of 52m x 27m and was at least four stories high, but it is rarely seen today.



The palace was surrounded by a wall with a thickness of 7 to 8 m and a defensive wall with a thickness of 4 m, and was built more than 33 m higher than the lower city, but in the excavation survey, everything from the top of the first floor to the top was lost. It is said that brick fragments were blown northeast from the palace.

Above the stratum labeled 'Blow-over' in the image below is 'the part that was blown and deposited by the wind over 3600 years after the destruction of Thor el Hammam' and was called 'Top of Debris'. Below the written part is 'the part where the four-story palace was destroyed and covered with debris on the first floor.' 2 and 3 are the gaps and carbon layers created by burning the rugs and tapestries used in the palace at that time.



Among the typical debris patterns destroyed by wars and earthquakes, 'partially melted and foamed brick debris' and 'high temperature melted building plaster' were found. In addition, a survey of the surrounding strata of about 1.5 m revealed a random mix of thousands of different pieces of pottery and mudbrick, carbonized wood, charred grain, bones, and limestone pebbles. bottom. In particular, bones showed 'a state in which human joints and skeletons were extremely fragmented.'

The following are the pieces of porcelain that were actually excavated, one side (a ・ c) is the same as it was at that time, but the other side (b ・ d) is burnt by high heat or melted and has holes. I understand.



Further analysis of carbon in the soil revealed carbon crystal molecules called shocked quartz and diamonoids. Shocked quartz means meteorite fall, and diamonoids mean that Thor el Hammam has been exposed to unusually high temperatures. In the image below, the yellow arrow points to the diamonoids contained in the soil.



In addition to platinum, gold, and silver,

iridium , nickel , and zircon were also found in the melted gypsum, so the research team said, 'The explosion caused by the fall of the meteorite may have destroyed Thor el Hammam. I argue. In addition, it is thought that a part of Jericho, a fortified city nearby, was blown away by the explosion.

The energy of the explosion that blew off Thor El Hammam is equivalent to 1000 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, and the diameter of the fallen meteorite is estimated to be about 50 m. The research team claimed that this was larger than the Tunguska event that blew up Siberian forests in 1908.



The research team also announced that an unusually high concentration of salt was detected in the formation when Toll el Hammam was destroyed. It is said that there were 15 cities and more than 100 small villages around the area where Thor El Hammam was located until the meteorite fell, but it was almost unmanned for 300 to 600 years after Thor El Hammam was blown away. It was said that. Despite the fact that there are many fertile farmlands from Jordan to Israel, the area around the Jordan Valley was abandoned for centuries because of the high concentration of salt, which prevented crops from growing at all, making agriculture impossible. The research team thinks it was because of that.

The research team explained why the salinity rose sharply in a large area, 'not because high salt surface sediments or the water of the Dead Sea, which is a salt lake, was rolled up by a meteorite fall explosion and scattered around. I guessed.

In addition, the research team concluded that 'the largest city at that time was destroyed by the fall of a meteorite' and 'the salinity of the soil in the surrounding area increased sharply',

and the 'Sodom and Gomorrah ' written in the Old Testament It suggests that it may be a model of.

In the Old Testament and Genesis, two cities called 'Sodom' and 'Gomorrah' are written. The inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah were so drowned in lust that their morals were so disturbed that God shook sulfur and fire from heaven to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. Also, only Lot 's family, who lived in Sodom and kept their faith in God, escaped from Sodom, but they turned around, ignoring God's instruction to 'never look back.' Is said to have become a pillar of salt.



The 'Tall El Hammam-Sodom' theory has been advocated for some time, and one of the research members, Professor Stephen Collins of the Faculty of Archeology at the University of the Southwest, also supported this theory. The results of this excavation reinforce the 'Tall El Hammam-Sodom' theory.

In addition, Jericho, who is said to have blown away with Thor El Hammam, also wrote in the Old Testament book of Joshua that 'when the people screamed and blew the horn, the walls collapsed and fell.' It may be related. Although the research team said, 'There is no scientific evidence that Thor el Hammam actually became a model for Sodom and Gomorrah,' the explosion revealed this time was verbally handed down in the Old Testament. It may have been incorporated.

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