Dead Sea artifacts

Words alone usually can't keep my attention for very long, and the Bible writers didn't have cameras, so let's see if a few modern pictures can help explain the old.

Let's start by looking at where the old cities may have been.

This is the site Ron thought to be Zoar. It is the site that has the clearest boundries, and by turning the colour up, it helps to show that it was a square shaped, small town. A dry creek bed is visible.

Next we look at Sodom, easy to find because it it still named that.

It is the least disturbed of the sites, sitting against the hills on the west side of the plain of siddim, where you can see the river valleys that used to supply the water for this city. I believe that those valleys and hills behind would be a good place to look for artifacts.

Gomorrah is very eroded, but appears to have stretched from Masada, right across the southern end of the valley of siddim.

I have wondered if Masada was first used by people from Gomorrah. That would make a lot of sense, but I have no evidence to support the idea.

As with Sodom, Gomorrah had a river to supply water.

Here you can see where the river has cut right through the ash.

To find Admah, drive north, away from the Dead sea on a calm hot day, and when you get a strong smell of sulphur, look around and find the mounds of white powder standing up on the plains, south east of Jericho.

A stream runs through the middle of the ash.

OK. now lets look at the sulphur. The bible says it rained brimstone, and brimestone is a specific type of sulphur known as monoclinic crystal sulphur. Although you might expect the heat to destroy all of the sulphur, it was written about by Moses, years after the event, and he did go near the area. Another thought is that of Daniel 3:17, where God can deliver from the fiery furnace. I can see why this may be a sticking point for some people.

The sulphur is usually found in little balls about golfball size, although some bits may exceed 1Kg. We found that it burns very well, and very stinky! The sulphur is electrically non-conductive, whereas the ash conducted rather well, and that may help explain why the sulphur is still there.

Here is a picture of some sulphur found at the Admah site.

And this one is to show the difference between normal volcanic sulphur ( rhombic ) and divinely sprinkled ( monoclinic )

It is rare to find volcanic sulphur as pure as the sulphur at the burnt cities.

Analysis of the Dead Sea water shows no sulphur, so that is clearly not the source of the sulphur.

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