New research suggests that the ancient Bronze Age city of Tall el-Hamman, in modern-day Jordan, was destroyed by a meteor—and that the catastrophic event could have inspired the Bible’s tale of Sodom ...

What everyone agrees on is that something unusual happened at Tall el-Hammam, an ancient settlement near the Dead Sea. In a layer of ancient earth, archaeologists claim to have found evidence of an ...

The story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Book of Genesis, where God ‘rains burning sulphur’ on the cities, might have a grain of truth, archaeologists claim. A meteor that exploded above the Dead Sea ...

Tell el-Hammam in the Jordan Valley might have inspired the story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, according to a new study that has spanned 15 years. In the study, published in the journal ...

In the Bible’s Old Testament, Gomorrah is one of two cities so wicked that God destroyed it with fire. In the HBO Max series of the same name, Gomorrah is not a place, but an idea. A pun, to be more ...