Meteor may have wiped out ancient Dead Sea communities

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A superheated blast from the skies obliterated cities and farming settlements north of the Dead Sea around 3,700 years ago, preliminary findings suggest.

Radiocarbon dating and unearthed minerals that instantly crystallized at high temperatures indicate that a massive airburst caused by a meteor that exploded in the atmosphere instantaneously destroyed civilization in a 25-kilometer-wide circular plain called Middle Ghor, said archaeologist Phillip Silvia. The event also pushed a bubbling brine of Dead Sea salts over once-fertile farm land, Silvia and his colleagues suspect.

People did not return to the region for 600 to 700 years, said Silvia, of Trinity Southwest University in Albuquerque. He reported these findings at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research on November 17.

Excavations at five large Middle Ghor sites, in what’s now Jordan, indicate that all were continuously occupied for at least 2,500 years until a sudden, collective collapse toward the end of the Bronze Age. Ground surveys have located 120 additional, smaller settlements in the region that the researchers suspect were also exposed to extreme, collapse-inducing heat and wind. An estimated 40,000 to 65,000 people inhabited Middle Ghor when the cosmic calamity hit, Silvia said.

The most comprehensive evidence of destruction caused by a low-altitude meteor explosion comes from the Bronze Age city of Tall el-Hammam, where a team that includes Silvia has been excavating for the last 13 years. Radiocarbon dating indicates that the mud-brick walls of nearly all structures suddenly disappeared around 3,700 years ago, leaving only stone foundations.

What’s more, the outer layers of many pieces of pottery from same time period show signs of having melted into glass. Zircon crystals in those glassy coats formed within one second at extremely high temperatures, perhaps as hot as the surface of the sun, Silvia said.

High-force winds created tiny, spherical mineral grains that apparently rained down on Tall el-Hammam, he said. The research team has identified these minuscule bits of rock on pottery fragments at the site.

Examples exist of exploding space rocks that have wreaked havoc on Earth (SN: 5/13/17, p. 12). An apparent meteor blast over a sparsely populated Siberian region in 1908, known as the Tunguska event, killed no one but flattened 2,000 square kilometers of forest. And a meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013 injured more than 1,600 people, mainly due to broken glass from windows that were blown out.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/...ea-communities

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Sodom and Gomorrah timeline.

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Sodom and Gomorrah timeline.

According to Sitchin´s Sumerian translations, Anunnakis nuked those places and also a Sinai space port. Mainstream lists Sitchin as pseudo but indeed, there are many weird constructions like ports in Sinai which don´t seem to be human made? and also traces of a giant craft. Furthermore, there is a giant geoglyph which also indicates to Anunnaki.

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Sinai traces

https://www.google.fi/maps/place/29%...6!4d34.0035809


Mainstream academics are not capable to see evidences which don´t support or fit in to their ape ancestry as the highest form of evolution. However, according to Sumerian tablets, Anunnaki created these simple beings for work in mines and agriculture after their previous servants Igigi revolted.

The Sinai geoglyph
https://youtu.be/y1fxLLmntWo

And Moses (Amenmesse), who was originally Sama Muni, was a high priest of An (Anunnaki main god) in the temple of Heliopolis before their power plays and a civil war or rebellion in Egypt.