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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[sparrowsion]

I've read one report (which I now can't find, meh) which implies that it was the ejecta falling back to earth which was responsible.

Fits the biblical description better than the last attempted explanation I saw, which was that an earthquake triggered liquifaction and a mudslide carried all archeological evidence into the Dead Sea.