{"id":1970015,"date":"2023-07-11T17:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T21:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/archeologist-explains-why-he-believes-he-discovered-biblical-city-of-sodom\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T17:47:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T21:47:01","slug":"archeologist-explains-why-he-believes-he-discovered-biblical-city-of-sodom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/archeologist-explains-why-he-believes-he-discovered-biblical-city-of-sodom\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologist claims to have found biblical city of Sodom."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farcheologist-explains-why-he-believes-he-discovered-biblical-city-of-sodom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1970015&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>An Archeologist&#8217;s Fascinating View on the Location of Sodom<\/h2>\n<p>An archeologist who believes the Biblical city of Sodom was located at a site in Jordan recently explained his view in a fascinating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dzZH1HfY5uk&#038;t=1114s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Dr. Steven Collins and the Location of Sodom<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Steven Collins, Trinity Southwest University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/trinitysouthwest.com\/faculty-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Executive<\/a> Dean, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/07\/11\/archaeologist-claims-jordan-site-sodom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explained<\/a> to Joel Rosenberg, host of The Rosenberg Report, why he believes Sodom \u2014 which, along with Gomorrah, was destroyed by God with fire and brimstone because of its wickedness \u2014 is actually located at Tell el-Hammam in Jordan, as opposed to the more popular view that Sodom was located at a site near the south of the Dead Sea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so much specific information about the location of these cities that you would practically have to be blind and illiterate not to be able to find the location of Sodom because there are at least 25 known pieces of geography [in scripture] that you can triangulate between to take you to the city of Sodom,\u201d Collins told Rosenberg in an interview that aired last month.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenberg said he began excavating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/archeologist-explains-why-he-believes-he-discovered-biblical-city-of-sodom\/\" title=\"Archaeologist claims to have found biblical city of Sodom.\">site 18 years ago<\/a>, which is close to the mouth of the Jordan River and northeast of Jerusalem. During the first season of digging, a piece of pottery believed to be a storage jar was reportedly discovered that looked \u201cmelted on the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The archeologist told the host that a member of his dig team said it looked similar to trinitite, which is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orau.org\/health-physics-museum\/collection\/nuclear-weapons\/trinity\/trinitite.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">glassy residue<\/a> left on the floor of the desert in Alamogordo, New Mexico, after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-reports-covid-19-cases-fires-3-ballistic-missiles\/\" title=\"North Korea Reports COVID-19 Cases, Fires 3 Ballistic Missiles\">nuclear bomb test<\/a> in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a little \u2013 about a one-and-a-half, two-millimeter flow of that glass over the edge of the break,\u201d Collins said of the pottery. \u201cSo it was obviously a flash heat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another piece of evidence Collins points to as possibly supporting his account is a 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-021-97778-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> that said a \u201cTunguska sized airburst\u201d destroyed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/japan-offers-exclusive-online-ninja-training-experience\/\" title=\"Japan offers exclusive online ninja training experience\">ancient city<\/a> of Tell el-Hammam, which is the same location Collins is claiming was once Sodom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the observations stated in Genesis are consistent with a cosmic airburst,\u201d James Kennett, one of the authors of the study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.ucsb.edu\/2021\/020400\/ancient-disaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201c[B]ut there\u2019s no scientific proof that this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-year-sentences-expected-for-anti-police-rioters-who-set-govt-vehicles-on-fire-destroyed-city\/\" title=\"Two-Year Sentences Expected For\u00a0Anti-Police Rioters Who Set Govt Vehicles On Fire, Destroyed City\">destroyed city<\/a> is indeed the Sodom of the Old Testament.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One piece of scripture Collins believes supports his hypothesis is Genesis 13, which says Lot traveled from Bethel and Ai to the east before pitching his tent near Sodom. This is a \u201cverbal map\u201d to get to Sodom, the archeologist believes, adding that Tell el-Hammam is east of Bethel and Ai.<\/p>\n<h3>Alternative Views on the Location of Sodom<\/h3>\n<p>Many Biblical archeologists and scholars believe that Sodom was actually located at an ancient city called Bab edh-Dhrahe in the south of the Dead Sea, Answers in Genesis <a href=\"https:\/\/answersingenesis.org\/archaeology\/have-we-found-sodom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notes<\/a>. According to the organization, Bab edh-Dhrahe is more likely the site of Sodom based on discoveries of early pottery and evidence of fiery destruction. They also cite various scriptural references which point to Sodom being south of the Dead Sea, including Genesis 10, Genesis 14, Genesis 19, and Ezekiel 16.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An archeologist, Dr. Steven Collins, shared his belief in an interview that the Biblical city of Sodom is situated in Jordan. He explained his view to Joel Rosenberg, host of The Rosenberg Report, stating that Sodom, along with Gomorrah, was destroyed by God. Dr. Collins is the Executive Dean of Trinity Southwest University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1530,"featured_media":1970016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1970016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}