SITE OF SODOM
DISCOVERY BY EXCAVATORS DESTRUCTION BY,FIRE PROVED i (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Jerusalem, December 31. The Pontifical Biblical Institute’s excavations resulted in the discovery of tlic site of Sodom, one of the cities of the plain, mentioned in Genesis. The remains are situated in the eastern plain of the Jordan, approximately five miles north afcfhe Dead Sea, and contain pottery other articles, showing that the city was built in the early Bronze Age, and therefore was more ancient than Jericho, but possessed of an advanced type of civilisation. The excavations prove that the city was destroyed by a great fire, and has been uninhabited since.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 13
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108SITE OF SODOM Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 13
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