Layard Tablet

[ewx]

Since it seems to be quiet today... Clay tablet identified as asteroid that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

Well, sort of. Other articles suggest that geologists date the Köfels landslide to 8-9K years ago (i.e. well before the Sumerians) and the connection to the story in Genesis 19 appears to be completely speculative.

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[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

They're generally accepted as having been located (if they existed) at the southern end of the Dead Sea. (I have also heard a theory that the name Qumran (located at the northern end of the Dead Sea) originated from "Gomorrah", though given Qumran was settled nearly two thousand years later, that's plenty of time for mix-ups to have happened.)