Sodom and Gomorrah Location Found?
14 km NE of the Dead Sea: from Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project website http://www.tallelhammam.com/ A "joint scientific endeavor" is being conducted by the College of Archaeology, Trinity Southwest University and the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project This image is in the public domain because it is a screenshot from NASA ’s globe software World Wind using a public domain layer, such as Blue Marble, MODIS, Landsat, SRTM, USGS or GLOBE. Dr. Steven Collins set out to find the lost city of Sodom. He worked through and traced clues from the Bible, archaeology and geography as to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Potential locations were whittled down in the process. Eventually, he settled on a site that is quite large, ancient (encompassing the Early, Intermediate and Middle Bronze Ages and Iron Age 2, among others) and located in the kindgom of Jordan as the only possibility remainin...