New research suggests that the ancient Bronze Age city of Tall el-Hamman, in modern-day Jordan, was destroyed by a meteor—and that the catastrophic event could have inspired the Bible’s tale of Sodom ...

(RNS) What, precisely, were the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah? Sodomy, right? That is what we have always believed. But the ancient Jewish sages said the people of Sodom passed laws that prohibited ...

What everyone agrees on is that something unusual happened at Tall el-Hammam, an ancient settlement near the Dead Sea. In a layer of ancient earth, archaeologists claim to have found evidence of an ...

In 1847, a 16-member expedition set off from New York for the Holy Land. Led by Lt. William Lynch, they carried with them months of supplies, weapons, two corrugated-steel rowboats and sanction from ...

In the Bible’s Old Testament, Gomorrah is one of two cities so wicked that God destroyed it with fire. In the HBO Max series of the same name, Gomorrah is not a place, but an idea. A pun, to be more ...