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Clay Tablet Wrongly Identified as Destroying Sodom and Gomorrah

Non-Technical - Apr 20, 2008 - by Henry B. Smith Jr. MA

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Excerpt A clay tablet that has baffled scientists for 150 years has been identified as a witness's account of the asteroid suspected of being behind the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Continue reading

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Researchers who cracked the cuneiform symbols on the Planisphere tablet believe that it recorded an asteroid thought to have been more than half a mile across. Sound archaeological research and Biblical chronology show this assertion to be incorrect.

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For Dr. Bryant Wood's work on this subject see:

The Discovery of the Sin Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah

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