A theologian claims archaeological finds in Jordan are proof the biblical city of Sodom really existed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scientists previously found evidence that the ancient city of Tall el-Hammam in the southern Jordan Valley was destroyed in a catastrophic event. And Dr John Bergsma, a Professor of Theology at Ohio\u2019s Franciscan University, suggests such an event mirrors what is in the Bible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Genesis, God rained sulphur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah for their “wickedness” \u2013 completely obliterating them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Examples of such devastation were seen in Tall el-Hammam and what was found completely changed Dr Bergsma’s perspective on the Old Testament. He recalled evidence of extreme heating on skeletons and fragments of pottery found by the archaeologists which could have been proof of a direct hit from an asteroid. About 3,600 years ago the city of Tall el-Hammam was thriving \u2013 significantly larger and more powerful than Jerusalem or Jericho. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But almost overnight it was gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The absence of any arrowheads or other signs of a siege in the ruins suggested that whatever destroyed Tall el-Hammam and its neighbour, it wasn\u2019t a military attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Steven Collins, the principal archaeologist at Tall el-Hammam, told Dr Bergsma about some of the astonishing findings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He discovered pieces of pottery discovered on the site had been covered in Trinitite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trinitite, Dr Bergsma explained, is \u201cthat glass layer that you get when you set off an atomic bomb in the desert and it melts the sand\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Bergsma continued: \u201cThey also started to find human remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHuman skeletons that are complete up until about halfway up the backbone and then there’s just a scorch mark and there’s nothing on the top of the body\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey find massive evidence that a huge heat blast from the sky at about 25C above the horizon incinerated these twin cities on the Jordanian side of the river.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Steven Collins likened the devastation to the Tunguska Event of 1908, when a massive asteroid slammed into the Earth\u2019s atmosphere over Siberia, causing widespread devastation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n