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Biblical city of Sodom 'found in Jordan'

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Sodom, the ancient Biblical "city of sin", may have been discovered by a team of archaeologists working on a site in Jordan.

Dr Steven Collins, a professor of Biblical studies and apologetics at Trinity Southwest University, says that the "monstrous" Tall el-Hammam site in the southern Jordan Valley, which lies eight miles northeast of the Dead Sea, matches the descriptions of the Bronze Age city-state.

Mr Collins, who began working on it in 2005, said: "I concluded that if one wanted to find Sodom, then one should look for the largest city on the eastern Kikkar that existed during the Middle Bronze Age, the time of Abraham and Lot.

"When we explored the area, the choice of Tall el Hammam as the site of Sodom was virtually a no-brainer since it was at least five to 10 times larger than all the other Bronze Age sites in the entire region."

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/biblical-city-of-sodom-found-in-jordan-a6693576.html

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