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Possible site of ancient Sodom yields more finds
Popular Archaeology ^ | Monday, September 28, 2015 | editors

Posted on 09/29/2015 12:42:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: DCBryan1

It was the worldwide demand for salt that made them their money.


41 posted on 09/29/2015 7:48:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv

Some biblical scholars argue that this was the site of “Sodom”. Other archaeologists disagree.
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That’s not unusual. Books of the Bible/Torah written based on oral folklore passed down through a dozen or more generations later should never be trusted as the absolute truth.


42 posted on 09/29/2015 8:25:50 AM PDT by octex
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To: knarf
"A strange development, thinks Collins, for a great city-state that flourished even through the catastrophic climate changes that arguably led to the collapse of the great cities of the Levantine Early Bronze Age around 2350 BCE. The climate change was, no doubt, a result of the clear cutting of the great Sahara Forest for fuel and building materials.

Added for the leftist version of clarity.

43 posted on 09/29/2015 9:06:26 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: SunkenCiv
... inexplicable ...

Inexplicable?

44 posted on 09/29/2015 9:43:45 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Just what is the difference between a "centrist democrat" and a "moderate republican?")
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To: silverleaf

I think one of the pics was either a kudu skull with horns or a kraken.

Omigod, beware of the kraken.


45 posted on 09/29/2015 10:17:49 AM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one.... what's yoIur plan?)
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To: SunkenCiv

Velokovsky was ahead of his time. Most of his presumptions have proven correct.


46 posted on 09/29/2015 10:24:23 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: wildbill

or Baphomet


47 posted on 09/29/2015 10:32:30 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: fatez; SunkenCiv

Have you seen the TV documentary about the theory it was an air-burst from a asteroid that was tracked by an ancient astronomer and recorded on a clay astrological chart found in the region now known as Iraq?

They also connect the asteroid to one that sheared off the top of a mountain in Austria on its trajectory south toward the Levant.

Very cool info in that documentary. Speculative, but with some physical clues that support it.


48 posted on 09/29/2015 10:37:15 AM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one.... what's yoIur plan?)
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To: silverleaf

Baphomet.

Now there’s a name I haven’t seen in quite a while.


49 posted on 09/29/2015 12:58:23 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one.... what's yoIur plan?)
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To: wildbill; SunkenCiv; kagnew; JimRed; Cronos; knarf; blam; All

When Saddam Hussein drained the Iraq Marshes, a 2 mile diameter depression was found, suggesting a bolide strike. Couldn’t find if any recent work has been done to verify origin because of warfare. At any rate, one suggestion is that it is from around 2200 BCE, which is just about what this article suggests. Lots of civilizations fell apart around this time. There could have been more than one event, including one or more bolide strikes, a Tungusku level air burst, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_al_Binni_lake

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10233538/Iraq-marshes-A-return-to-Eden-after-Saddams-fall.html It’s nice to know the marshes are being restored.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpmXyJrs7iU Arabs cry out “God is great” in Arabicas a meteor falls in 2013. Other falls including the in Russia in 2013 also at this site.

I ran across an account of the search for the Wabar meteors in an older National Geographic. Although the age does not seem to be connected to either Sodom or the Iraq Marshes, the story the author was told is that this fall destroyed a city for its wickedness. I guess if God would destroy something this way it must because of the wickedness of the people.
http://www.meteoritestudies.com/protected_WABAR.HTM


50 posted on 09/29/2015 10:31:23 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: wildbill

I haven’t, but I’ve heard of it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3342361/posts?page=37#37


51 posted on 09/29/2015 10:42:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: gleeaikin

For more about what you posted, readers can also see the “curseofagade” keyword.


52 posted on 09/29/2015 10:45:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: JimRed

Thanks JimRed.


53 posted on 09/30/2015 12:10:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: kagnew

yet the ancient greeks did the same and we see the same in the netherlands etc. today


54 posted on 09/30/2015 1:15:54 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: gleeaikin; wildbill; SunkenCiv; kagnew; JimRed; Cronos; knarf; blam; All

In mid-September, I asked Dr. Collins and Phillip Silvia the question whether the possible bolide strike in Iraq and over Jordan could be part of the same event. They smiled and said the direction of the strike is the same (approach from the southwest is what I think they said (either that or southeast)), but the timing between the events was probably a 500 to 300 year difference. But I could tell they are very interested in the Iraq crater.


55 posted on 09/30/2015 8:52:20 AM PDT by fatez (Ya, well, you know, that's just your opinion man...)
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To: fatez; SunkenCiv

the documentary I was referring to posited a different trajectory. If it sheared off the top of a mountain in AUSTRIA and then finally culminated in pieces falling over the Dead Sea it would have been traveling in a NW to SE direction I think. They had a potential time on that dip to earth I think that would have coincided with the chart on the clay tablet found in modern day Iraq.

And that was the direction portrayed on the clay tablet. I think they even had a date of the event from the astrological charts of the stars marked on the tablet.

I was fascinated by the recreation of events that apparently could be dated—and which might have also explained the Dead Sea strikes by fiery bits of the debris.

Wish I had more info on how to find the documentary, but I watch so many of these shows that I can’t keep them straight.


56 posted on 09/30/2015 2:47:46 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one.... what's yoIur plan?)
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To: wildbill

Austrian Impacts, Sumerian Tablets and the Press
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=1809

Assyrian clay tablet points to ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’ asteroid
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/31/kofels_asteroid/

vids:
http://www.google.com/search?q=ancient+impact+austria+sumeria+clay+tablet&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=vid&source=og&sa=N&tab=wv


57 posted on 09/30/2015 2:56:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv; fatez

Sunken Civ always comes up with the goods.

Austrian Impacts, Sumerian Tablets and the Press
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=1809

Assyrian clay tablet points to ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’ asteroid
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/31/kofels_asteroid/

vids:
http://www.google.com/search?q=ancient+impact+austria+sumeria+clay+tablet&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=vid&source=og&sa=N&tab=wv


58 posted on 09/30/2015 3:00:08 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one.... what's yoIur plan?)
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To: wildbill; fatez

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/curseofagade/index

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/sodom/index


59 posted on 09/30/2015 4:20:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Thud

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/tallelhammam/index


60 posted on 03/02/2016 6:31:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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