Death From Above: Seven Unlucky Tales of People Killed by Meteorites | Discover Magazine
Roughly 3,700 years ago, a meteor may have exploded over the Dead Sea city of Tall el-Hammam. Located in what is now Jordan, some scientists believe Tall el-Hammam was the biblical city of Sodom. And when the blast occurred, it caused massive devastation, according to a group of Christian scientists who ve studied the site for more than a decade. Their research was presented in 2017 at an annual meeting of The Meteoritical Society.
Archaeologists say the explosion instantly devastated hundreds of square miles north of the Dead Sea, destroying 100 percent of nearby cities and towns. The blast also may have stripped away once-fertile soils and coated agricultural lands with superheated brine ejected from the Dead Sea. Evidence of agricultural activity doesn t return to the landscape for at least 600 years.