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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corey" data-source="post: 380509" data-attributes="member: 140">Historian Peter James and Arachaeologist Nick Thorpe have a very interesting possible explaination for the destuction of Sodom and Gomorrah in their book Ancient Mysteries.They suggest that the cities sat on a fault line and nearby slime pits were rich in oil, a combination that equalled a "powder keg." Here is a quote: "A disasterous earthquake shook the Vale of Siddim (in the Dead Sea area) in about 2000 BC, releasing large quantities of natural gases and bitumens which were ignited by scattered hearth fires..."So earthquake releases natural gases that interact with people's cooking fires and go boom.No more hamlet and an interesting conflguration whose thick black smoke would be visible from afar.Corey</blockquote>