4. The Real Life Catastrophe Behind the Biblical Story?
One day, circa 1650 BC, the inhabitants of a Bronze Age city a few miles northeast of the Dead Sea went about their daily business, blissfully unaware of their impending doom. Unbeknownst to the residents of what is now known as Tall al-Hammam, an archaeological site in Jordan, an unseen icy space rock was speeding their way at 38,000 miles per hour. As it ripped through the atmosphere, the small asteroid left a fiery trail in its wake, before it burst about two and a half miles above the ancient city. The explosion was about 1000 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Those unfortunates whose eyes had been focused on the plunging space rock when it blew up were instantly blinded. In a minor mercy, they did not have long to contemplate their loss of sight.
