Geologists Just Found Out What Jordan’s Sodom Site Actually Is

Geologists Just Found Out What Jordan’s Sodom Site Actually Is A paper claiming a space rock exploded over a Bronze Age city near the Dead Sea went viral in 2021, and in April 2025 the journal that published it formally retracted the whole thing. In this one I go through Tall el Hammam, the bubbled mud bricks and pottery melted into glass, the five ruins on the southern shore that got matched to the five cities of Genesis, and the salt pillar called Lot's Wife that a geologist proved was the last wall of a collapsed cave. The part that gets me is the sulfur in those cliffs, actual brimstone, which burns blue and purple if you hold a flame to it. I will be honest, I think the retraction was right, because the melted glass matches what kilns and a burning city leave behind and nobody has ever confirmed a crater there. What I cannot let go of is that the city really did burn and then sat empty for centuries, and the ground has never given up who started it. All from Wikimedia Commons — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: plus the filename. *CC-BY-SA:* The Sack of Troy (1610), Caullery circle · 18 Wadi Mujib Siq Trail - panoramio · 2 Cheljabinsk meteorite fragment · 20110419 Ani North Walls Turkey Panorama · 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor trace · 798 Thirty five Prehistoric Fire damaged flints · A skeleton. Excavations at Tell Kunara · Al Safi Sugar Cane Factories · Anticlinal Oil trap · Archaeological Excavation Roman Villa Area Rabat 11 · Archaeological survey of Kaf al-Kalb, eastern Jordan · Ashalim stream, Judean Desert (1) · Asymmetric kink fold · Bab edh-Dhra 02 · Bab edh-Dhra gate overlooking south end dead sea 2014 · Badwater Salt Flats looking South · Bediasite and moldavite at Griffith Observatory · Biconical jar, 3200-2800 BC, AGMA, 225225 · Blue Sulfur Flames · Broken-Window-20130513 · Burnt bricks · Byzantine floor mosaic map at St. George Church Madaba · Camel train in Danakil, Ethiopia · Cave-passage-1 · Celestine-Sulfur-t5102b · Cliffs in judea desert, israel · Coastline of the Dead Sea · Concrétions de soufre · Conifer Forest Near Loch Lubnaig - geograph 394809 · Dead Sea (5331974001) · Dead Sea (satellite view) · Dead Sea 12 · Dead Sea by David Shankbone · Dead Sea Reflection · Dead Sea salt crystals · Dead Sea salt formation (Aerial view, 2007) · Dead Sea salt formation (Aerial view, 2007) 05 · Dead Sea Transform map and cross section · Dead Sea Works, Sodom · Dead Sea, stones covered by salt · Desert - panoramio (27) · Development of salt diapir during thin-skinned extension · Droskyn Point Soil Profile - geograph 1474417 · Fault geology · Fortress Wall · Geology Field Tour 2011 · Great Rift Valley S Asian section · Halite 5 · House made of mud bricks with a thatched roof in Belo (1) · ISR-2013-Aerial-Masada-Northern Palace 01 · Israel-2013-Aerial 14-Masada · Jawa (Ruins) · Kemp Law. Vitrified walling. Dundonald Woods · Khirbet al-Batrawy 5 · Lava Lake Nyiragongo 2 · Lisan formation · Lot's wife Jordan · Mâchefers à Soavinandriana Itasy · Mount Sodom, Dead Sea Outlook 07 · Mount Sodom, Dead Sea Outlook 09 · Mount Sodom, Dead Sea Outlook 15 · Muralla de ladrillos de adobe · Overzicht proefsleuf nr 2 - A79ZFL - 20581602 - RCE · Pakbu (Ladakhi mudbrick) builders in Shey village 05 · Pithos, 2700-2200 BC, AM of Nafplio · Rainstorm-Mojave Desert, Baker Calif. - panoramio · Rock sample 2 Interbedded lacustrine Meri'a Ziban · Scholarly journals on screens · Seismogram at Weston Observatory · Excavations at Gird-i Shamlu, Shahrizor Plain · Tall el-Hammam overlooking the Jordan Valley 2007 · אשת לוט · 敘利亞古蹟431 *CC-BY:* 141143 jordan valley PikiWiki · 69 Travertine columns & joint-aligned ceiling speleothem 1 · 93941 the dead sea at sunset PikiWiki · 93942 sinkholes in the dead sea PikiWiki · Abandoned mining settlement of Sadon 01 · Analyse de carottes de sédiment · Ancient masonry · Archaeological field work · Archaeologist excavating a ceramic at 86 Lexden Road, Colchester · Archaeologist recording a ditch feature · Baffled LIGO Scientists · Colonel-cave-085 · Cracked · CrystalGrain · Crystals growing from melted sulfur · Dead Sea Halite Terraces and Salt Crust Formations 01 · Desert Escarpment · Earth Fissure North of Hunt Highway - panoramio · Extent of the cosmic airburst at Tunguska superimposed on the Dead Sea area · Fireball Flies Above Gemini North · High-temperature Fe-rich impact-related spherules · Hurvat-Yarda-13829 · Leonid Meteor (cropped) · Lisan Formation · Molten Sulfur · NYC Public Library Research Room · Smoke over Altiplano - panoramio · Sodom-cave-004 · The Dead Sea · The frontier of Egypt in the Early Bronze Age, Tell es-Sakan · Tunguska explosion effect areas 1 *archive.org:* O.F Box 2A Layer 2 Light Line With Nails (CC-BY) /GIB006005000001 · Olives farm Tegulae Flue Burnt Timber (CC-BY) /GIB006006000003 · Schahr-e-Suchte (CC-BY-NC) /Schahr-e-Suchte · The Public Face group 2 (CC-BY-NC) /ThePublicFacegroup2.