Tall el-Hammam: Is Sodom Found ? By Dr. Steven Collins

Black Buzz News Service
Special Report
Pittsburgh Pa.
March 13, 2010

The BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH PA. will present a lecture by Dr. Steven Collins titled "Tall el-Hammam: Is Sodom Found at the Rodef Shalom Congregation, 4905 Fifth Avenue on Sunday AFTERNOON March 21, 2010 at 2:30 PM.
Dr Collins is one of the foremost and eminent Archaeologist in the world and his lecture and presentation on the "Five Lost Cities of the Plains should quite interesting and educational.
According to Dr. Collins the powerful city-state known today as Tall el-Hammam is one of the largest Bronze Age cities in the southern Levant.
Dr. Collins has excavated the site in the Jordan Plain over the last five years, revealing an occupational platform of approximately 150 acres: outer and inner city fortifications whose defensive walls range from 13 to 25 feet thick. It dominated the socio-political and economic life of the Jordan Valley, while influencing the history of the surrounding region, for over two thousand years. The surrounding landscape includes hundreds of domains, monliths, stone circles, and tombs from the two thousand years of the Chalcolithic through the Bronze Age, approximately 4300 to 1600 BCE. After its abrupt and violent end, it remained unoccupied for five centuries.
Dr. Collins further states that the area during the days of Abraham and Lot, the Middle Bronze Age, was a verdant agricultural paradise.
But when Moses and the Israelites arrived in the Plains of Moab during the Bronze Age, it was wasteland with no inhabitants.
The current excavations have pieced together compelling evidence that solves the riddle of Tall el-Hamman's destruction as well as the mystery of the location of Sodom and Gomorrah, Edmah, and Zeboim, the infamous cities of the Dead Sea Shore.

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