Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
For archaeologist estimate the ancient city of Tall el-Hammam in the Valley Jordan which is thought to have been destroyed by the impact asteroid about 3,600 years ago was the location of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The city is thought to be the source of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah which is described in the Qur’an and the Bible.
A study published in the journal Nature explained that there was a large enough explosion due to the impact of celestial bodies that flattened the ancient city and the palace and surrounding walls.
The study compared an air explosion that occurred around 1650 BC with the Tunguska Event that occurred in 1908. The Tunguska event occurred when a meteor 183 to 196 feet high entered Earth’s atmosphere and exploded over East Siberia at a speed of about 33,500 miles per hour.
The resulting explosion released about 12 megatons of energy, equivalent to about 1,000 times the energy of the atomic bomb that destroyed the city of Hiroshima in World War II.
Reporters in the journal, including professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of California Santa Barbara, James Kennett, believe the explosion in the ancient city was more powerful than the one in the Tunguska Event.
“There is evidence of a large cosmic explosion, close to this town called Tall el-Hammam,” Kennett said in a press release.
Kennett said the city became a very important cultural area because most of the cultural complexities of early human civilization developed in that area.
Archaeologists have found artifacts and destroyed sites thought to have been caused by war or earthquakes. The artifacts included pottery shards that melted into glass, bubbling mud bricks, and melted building materials.
All forms of combustion are shown to be caused by temperatures far above average, both from any heating method that is even produced artificially.
“We saw evidence of temperatures greater than 2,000 degrees Celsius,” Kennett said.
Among the charred material and shattered structures are the remains of a human skeleton which, according to the paper, has been fragmented.
Archaeologists Unveil Site in Jordan Valley Suspected of Sodom
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