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A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom
It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...
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Ancient DNA reveals Phoenicians’ surprising genetic ancestry
To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...
Retracted: A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom
It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...
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A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom
As the inhabitants of an ancient Middle Eastern city now called Tall el-Hammam went about their daily business one day about 3,600 years ago, they had no idea an unseen icy space rock was speeding ...
It Survived for 2,000 Years, but Syria’s War Battered Palmyra
During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...