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<< Text Pages >> Bab edh-Dhra - Ancient Village or Settlement in Jordan

Submitted by motist on Monday, 26 July 2010  Page Views: 9358

Multi-periodSite Name: Bab edh-Dhra Alternative Name: Sodom and Gomorrah
Country: Jordan
NOTE: This site is 9.444 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Al Karak  Nearest Village: Al Mazra'ah
Latitude: 31.253370N  Longitude: 35.533487E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

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Ancient Settlement in Jordan

One of the most important transitions in human history involved the establishment of the world’s first cities approximately 5,000 years ago in the ancient Middle East. In the eastern Mediterranean region (Israel, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan), people built the first walled cities during a period archaeologists call the Early Bronze Age (EBA, c. 3500-2000 BCE). In the EBA on the southeastern Dead Sea Plain, people began burying their dead in extensive cemeteries, creating a landscape of the dead. Interestingly, they soon built two walled towns next to the cemeteries that they had used for a few centuries. In these settlements, called Bab edh-Dhra’ and Numeira, people established the way of life that we read about in the Bible. In fact, for the writers of the Bible, the desolate nature of this stretch of shore along the Dead Sea and the visible ruins of Bab edh-Dhra' and Numeira may have helped them to identify this area with the stories of the ill-fated sites of Sodom and Gomorrah

More at Expedition Dead Sea Plain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bab_edh-Dhra

http://www.bib-arch.org/e-features/sodom-and-gomorrah.asp
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Re: Bab edh-Dhra’ ,Sodom and Gomorrah ? by motist on Monday, 26 July 2010
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More:

http://www.nd.edu/~mchesson/newedsphome.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bab_edh-Dhra

http://www.bib-arch.org/e-features/sodom-and-gomorrah.asp

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