[SunkenCiv]

View of Tall el-Hammam. The mound is the most prominent feature on the landscape for miles around. Courtesy Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project

[Cronos]

I wonder what was it that the Sodomites did that was so horrible that other peoples have not done through the ages?

[Charles Henrickson]

[wbarmy]

Didn’t Popular Archaeology used to be called Biblical Archaeology?

[Crim]

Climate change....LOL!

[clearcarbon]

"the city’s Bronze Age heyday seems to have nevertheless come to a sudden, inexplicable end toward the end of the Middle Bronze Age"

The occupants forgot how to reproduce.

[jimbug]

Some notes on the ESV Bible translation link to sources that say the smoke from Sodom was still coming out of the earth 2000 years after it was destroyed.

[Mrs. B.S. Roberts]

“....flourished even through the..(wait for it)... catastrophic climate changes”

Catastrophic climate changes? Catastrophic climate changes?

Wow, I really didn’t realize that the ancients had SUV’s and
coal fired hydroelectric plants. Huh, you learn something new every day.

[CommerceComet]

Wow. All that destruction just because the people of Sodom didn’t practice hospitality. (/sarcasm)

[fatez]

Studying under Dr. Collins for my masters. The stuff they are finding is flat out amazing. Specifically, they are now looking at several craters scattered throughout Jordan as the possible remains of a bolide catalyst for the airburst over Tall el-Hammam.

[DCBryan1]

for a great city-state that flourished even through the catastrophic climate changes

Stopped reading right there.

[RobinOfKingston]

... inexplicable ...

Inexplicable?