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A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom

  • Written by Christopher R. Moore, Archaeologist and Special Projects Director at the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program and South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina
A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of SodomArtist's evidence-based depiction of the blast, which had the power of 1,000 Hiroshimas.Allen West and Jennifer Rice, CC BY-ND

As the inhabitants of an ancient Middle Eastern city now called Tall el-Hammam went about their daily business one day about 3,600 years ago, they had no idea an unseen icy space rock was speeding toward them at about...

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