This made me think of Sodom and Gomorrah. And, indeed, it looks like that's a published theory of the director of excavations there, Steven Collins. https://e

This made me think of Sodom and Gomorrah. And, indeed, it looks like that's a published theory of the director of excavations there, Steven Collins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah#Possible_sites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah#Possible_si... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Southwest_University#Archaeology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Southwest_University#A... EDIT: You think I would know to not read just the abstract... Sodom is explicitly mentioned in the linked Nature paper, but only in the sense that if the two are connected, it would be the second oldest known record of an airburst event.