RUINS OF SODOM FOUND NEAR DEAD SEA.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) JERUSALEM, December 31. Excavations of the Pontifical Biblical Institute have resulted in the discovery of the site of Sodom, one of the cities of the plain mentioned in Genesis. The remains of the city are situated on the eastern plain of the Jordan, approximately five miles north of the Dead Sea. They contain pottery and other articles showing that the city was built in the early Bronze Age, and is therefore more ancient than Jericho. It was, however, possessed of an advanced type of civilisation. The excavations proved that the city was destroyed by a great fire and has been uninhabited ever since.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18958, 2 January 1930, Page 1
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