The biblical "city of sin" is believed to have been discovered by archaeologists excavating in Jordan.
Fragments found at Tell el Hammam, located in the southern Jordan Valley, 13 kilometers northeast of the Dead Sea, match the Biblical description of the Bronze Age city-state. This is stated by Professor Stephen Collins, an expert in Bible study and apologetics at Trinity Southwestern University (USA). According to Collins, this place meets all the "criteria" of Sodom, which, according to the Old Testament, was destroyed with fire and brimstone along with Gomorrah.
The scientist, who began work in Jordan in 2005, says that they decided to search in Tell el-Hammam, since among the cities that have survived from the Bronze Age, this one is 5-10 times larger than the others in the region. The site, built up between 3500 and 1540 BC, has an elevation. Therefore, archaeologists assumed that there were two cities in this place - an upper and a lower one. Fragments of fortress walls 10 meters high and 5 meters wide, gates, squares, towers and defensive ramparts were also found.
For Collins, it was extremely difficult to erect all this. The walls and buildings inside the city required millions of bricks and a large number of workers. The scientist suggested that the defenses reached 30 meters in height and could be built to protect the nobility and rulers.
Archaeologists believe that life in the city they found gradually subsided and completely died out by the middle of the Bronze Age, after which the place was abandoned for 700 years.
As a reminder, as part of the search for biblical sites and artifacts, excavations were carried out in Nazareth. In 2015, a group of archaeologists led by Briton Ken Dark found a house in which the first years of the life of Jesus Christ may have passed.