ARCHÆOLOGY
A MONTHLY EXCAVATION OF ODDITIES AND ANTIQUITIES
A COSMIC BLAST?
Tall el-Hammam, a major Bronze Age city located in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea, was destroyed c.1650 BC by some kind of exceptional force, an event that has caused much speculation in recent years, some of it of the ‘ancient astronauts’ kind. Now, a new study offers a different perspective. After highly detailed analysis of several years of excavational findings at the site, the authors of an extremely technical and multi-disciplinary paper in conclude (though not without some critiques), that the only feasible explanation of the nature and scale of the city’s destruction is a “Tunguskasized” airburst
