Searching for Sodom and Gomorrah - http://www.bib-arch.org/e-features/sodom-and-gomorrah.asp

"As suggested by Amos Frumkin in his May/June 2009 BAR article on the salt pillar known as Lot’s Wife, the Sodom story told in the Bible likely represents an ancient memory of a single catastrophic event that affected the cities and peoples of the Dead Sea region nearly 4,000 years ago."

Really interesting article.

This is what I love about archaeology. Absolutely fascinating.

This isn't that new a theory actually. I remember watching a history program when I was a kid that suggested Sodom and Domorrah to be beneath the Dead Sea or at least close to the edge of it....

I wonder if the same thing is going to happen to San Francisco?

You'd like that wouldn't you?

I just love the way people waste so much time trying to prove that metaphoric events were actually historical.

@ Jorjor, it doesn't really matter if what they found were the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah or not. What I find fascinating is that they found the ruins of two cities and they're trying to figure out what happened to them.

The Biblical account pretty much describes such a natural disaster and yet gives it a spiritual/theological connotation. There are many such descriptions...some still future. So, we'll see.