Mystery AtlasSodom
The city the Book of Genesis describes God destroying alongside Gomorrah for the wickedness of its inhabitants, traditionally placed near the Dead Sea; no site has been conclusively identified, and candidates have been proposed both north and south of the Dead Sea.
This is a knowledge-graph entry: what our data records about Sodom and how it connects to the rest of the atlas. It does not have a full article of its own yet.
Connected to
How this topic links to the people, places, and ideas around it — drawn from our knowledge graph.
Places
Sodom is claimed by Tall el-Hammam — Proposed by the site's excavation team since 2005; most archaeologists working outside the project favour other candidate sites or regard the identification as unresolved, chiefly on chronological and geographical grounds.
Creatures & Figures
Sodom is frequently compared to Genesis Flood Narrative — Genesis pairs Sodom's destruction and Noah's flood as its two paradigmatic stories of divine judgement delivered through catastrophe.