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Evidence that a cosmic impact destroyed ancient city (Tall el-Hammam) in the Jordan Valley. (The explosion was similar to the Tunguska Event, a roughly 12-megaton airburst. It may have inspired the Biblical story of Sodom.)


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Archaeologists find evidence for a Bronze Age, city-destroying air burst in the Jordan River valley