²⁷ Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. ²⁸ He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace. (Genesis 19:27-28 NIV)

In the verse above, we have a description of what Abraham saw after God poured fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah destroying the two ancient cities because of their sin (Ezekiel 16:49-50).

Archaeologists are reporting that they may have discovered the location of one of these cities in the country of Jordan.

Located in the Jordan Valley, the site, called Tall el-Hammam, has been excavated off and on since its discovery in the late 1800s.

Though people lived in the area for centuries, as archaeologists dug down they discovered evidence of a thriving major city about 3,600 years ago, that was arguably larger than other prominent cities at that time including Jericho.

But the city suddenly vanished and instead of finding evidence that it was destroyed by a military siege, archaeologists found indications that it may have suffered a cataclysmic event similar to what was described in the Bible:

²⁴ Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. (Genesis 20:24 NIV)

Archaeologists working at Tall el-Hammam have found evidence of the city’s violent and fiery destruction, some of which bears a similarity to what is often associated with an atomic bomb.

In a recent interview with Relevant Magazine, John Bergsma, a theology professor at Ohio’s Franciscan University, stated that they had found Trinitite at the site and on the outside of the pottery. This is a glass-like layer typically found at the sites of Atomic blasts which create such extreme heat it melts the sand.

Bergsma added that they have also found the partial skeletal remains of people with the bottom half intact, and the top gone with only a scorch mark remaining.

“Human skeletons are complete up until about halfway up the backbone, and then there’s just a scorch mark, and there’s nothing on the top of the body. They found massive evidence that a huge heat blast from the sky…”, Bergsma explained.

This has led some to speculate that the city may have been destroyed by an Asteroid similar to one that exploded over Siberia in 1908.

Referred to as the Tunguska Event, the asteroid’s blast flattened about 2,150 km2 (830 sq mi) of forest. Eyewitnesses also reported seeing a “pillar of fire” pouring down from the sky.

Though not everyone agrees with Bergsma’s conclusions, could God have used an asteroid explosion to judge the two cities?

It is certainly possible.

During Noah’s flood, God used natural events including 40 days and nights of rain and the release of springs of water from the earth to initiate that judgment (Genesis 7:11-12).

READ: Experts Find Compelling Evidence That Sodom Was Destroyed by an ‘Atomic Bomb’ AND Evidence suggests ‘atomic bomb’ destroyed biblical Sodom

I have a podcast that discusses the Tunguska Event and its similarity to the description of a judgment mentioned in the Book of Revelation: