Page 58 - Perished Nations

On the left: an illustra-
tion showing the vol-
canic eruption and the
collapse that followed
it, which caused the
whole people to disap-
pear.

Page across: a distant
view of the Lake of
Lut

the left of the peninsula the water remains remarkably shallow. Soundings
taken in the last few years established depths of only fifty to sixty feet. That
extraordinary shallow part of the Dead Sea, from the peninsula El-Lisan to
the southernmost tip, was the Vale of Siddim. 16
Werner Keller noted that this shallow part, which was discovered to
have formed subsequently, was the outcome of the aforementioned earth-
quake and the massive collapse this earthquake had caused. This was the
place where Sodom and Gomorrah were situated, that is, where Lut’s (as)
people lived.
Once, it was possible to cross this region by walking. However, now,
the Vale of Siddim, where Sodom and Gomorrah were once situated, is
covered by the flat surface of the lower part of the Dead Sea. The collapse
of the base as a result of the dreadful catastrophe that came to pass in the
beginning of the second millennium BC, caused salt water from the north
to flow into this recently formed cavity and filled the basin with salty water.

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