Genesis says that "the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire out of heaven. God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah to punish the sexual immorality of their inhabitants is one of the most graphic episodes in the Old Testament. These Bible stories were handed down by word of mouth from generation to generation before they were written down, and there seems to be a great deal in this one." He said: "There is a good chance that these mounds are covering up brick structures and are one of the lost cities of the plains, possibly even Sodom or Gomorrah, though I would have to examine the evidence. John Whitaker, a geologist from Leicester University and the former editor of Geology Today, said yesterday that the new development - which will be unveiled in a television documentary tomorrow - appeared "very significant". What we found matches exactly what the remains of an ancient city might look like."ĭr. I predicted there must be something extraordinary there and, lo and behold, there was. He said: "The evidence cannot be ignored. Sanders, a Briton who is now based in the United States, said yesterday that he was "immensely excited" about the find, and he is already planning a follow-up expedition. Michael Sanders and an international team of researchers discovered what appear to be the salt-encrusted remains of ancient settlements on the seabed after several fraught weeks diving in a mini submarine. If I was to guess the time frame, I'd go with 1,000 AD -1,400 AD on the conventional time scale.Ī Bible scholar believes that he has found the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah, the evil cities destroyed by God with fire and brimstone, after leading the first expedition to explore the bottom of the Dead Sea. KD: I do not believe for a second that there were thousands of years between the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra, and the first of the maps below.
ANCIENT KINGDOM OF THE DEAD SEA FULL
The knowledge was mysteriously lost when book printing, map making and the Age of Discovery were in full swing. Yup, people knew where Sodom and Gomorrah were located all the way untill the late modern period which began approximately in the mid-18th century. I find it tremendously suspicious that the memory of their exact location made it through 3,750 years of history, including the periods below, but then somehow got lost. Supposedly these 4 cities were destroyed between 2000 BC and 1900 BC (according the Biblical Timeline). + neighboring Admah and ZeboimThe below presented maps cover years 1540 - 1753.
These 4 are still at large, and some even question their existence in first place. I think they deliberately placed Bela/Zoara at a wrong location, for Zoara is definitely not a neighboring city to the destroyed Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim.
Bela was allegedly identified as modern-day Zoara. Neighboring Bela was the only city to be spared.Īs can be seen, 4 cities were destroyed, and neighboring Bela was spared. These five cities, also known as the "cities of the plain", were situated on the Jordan River plain in the southern region of the land of Canaan.ĭivine judgment by God was passed upon Sodom and Gomorrah and two neighboring cities, which were completely consumed by fire and brimstone. According to the Torah, the kingdoms of Sodom and Gomorrah were allied with the cities of Admah, Zeboim, and Bela. We have 5 cities which were allegedly punished by God. It starts to look, and sound like our overzealous archaeologists are working hard at not finding anything on purpose. Of the five "cities of the plain", only Bela, modern-day Zoara, is securely identified, and it remained a settlement long after the biblical period." There is a whole bunch of additional worthless information in the wiki article, none of which points to the obvious. Some possible natural explanations for the events described have been proposed, but no widely accepted or strongly verified sites for the cities have been found. Wikipedia, "There are other stories and historical names which bear a resemblance to the biblical stories of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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