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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[ewx.livejournal.com]

Also, perhaps it did get trashed, but the people who recorded the story had more reason to record S+G's destruction that Jerusalem's at the time.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

I think we'd have noticed the destruction of Jerusalem in the archaeological record. (Rather conveniently, the location of Jerusalem shifted slightly over the centuries, so the oldest part is mostly not covered today by the Old City, or the Temple Mount.)