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
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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.