Sodom and Gomorrah: Did an Ancient Catastrophe Become a Story of Divine Weapons?

Podcast: Ancient Astronauts · Forbidden Knowledge Network

Opublikowano: 2026-10-21

Tall el-Hammam, an excavated Bronze Age settlement in Jordan’s lower Jordan Valley, contains a major Middle Bronze Age destruction horizon and a subsequent interruption in occupation. In 2021, researchers proposed that a cosmic airburst destroyed the site around 1650 BCE and cautiously speculated that a remembered catastrophe may have contributed to the later Sodom tradition in Genesis. The claim became widely compressed into a dramatic headline: a meteor destroyed Sodom. But the excavation record, the proposed airburst, the identification of Tall el-Hammam as Sodom, and the Genesis connection are separate questions with different kinds of evidence. This investigation follows th...