3,600 years ago the inhabitants of an ancient city in the Middle East, known today as Tall el-Hammam, did their daily work not knowing that an icy space rock was coming at them at 61,000 kilometers per hour. Entering the atmosphere, the rock exploded 4 kilometers from the ground, producing an explosion 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
Those who saw the explosion were immediately blinded. The air temperature reached 2,000 degrees Celsius, destroying clothes, leather and wood. Swords, spears, walls and pottery melted and in an instant the whole city burned. Seconds later came the shock wave at a speed of 1,200 kilometers per hour, stronger than the largest cyclone, destroying what was left standing. None of the 8,000 inhabitants or animals survived. About a minute later, 22 miles[22 km]to the west, a shock wave struck the biblical city of Jericho, destroying its walls and setting it on fire.
All these conclusions come after 15 years of studies by hundreds of archaeologists and analyzes of materials from the US, Canada and the Czech Republic. The findings were published in Scientific Reports and are co-authored by 21 scientists from various disciplines.
Scientists, seeing the disaster in the city, ruled out the possibility of an earthquake, volcano or war. The person responsible for the disaster was an asteroid, similar in size to the one that destroyed 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. The evidence was found in pieces of sand, which form at a pressure of only 5 gigapascals, as if one had six military tanks in his finger. Additional experiments in the laboratory showed that the ceramics of the time would melt at 1,500 degrees Celsius. Evaporated iron and sand pellets were also found that melted at 1,590 degrees Celsius. All this shows that the temperatures in the city have exceeded those of the volcanoes and the only natural source is a cosmic collision.
Scholars even consider that the verbal description of the destruction of the city continued for generations, until it was recorded as the biblical destruction in Sodom. The Bible describes the destruction of a city near the Dead Sea, where stones and fire fell from the skies, killing all the inhabitants. If the match is true, we will have the first written record of such a catastrophe in human history.
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