Admah – A Selection of Images

Jake Wilson
2020
Figure 1: Admah is located at the northwestern tip of the Dead Sea, approx. 5 km from Qumran | Gen 10.19
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Figure 2: Aerial view of the light-coloured site; Admah covers an area of approx. 1 sq mi
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Figure 3: Admah – turned to ash in 1897 BCE (cf. Gomorrah, 50 km south) | Gen 19.24; Jub 16.5; Jash 19.36–45, 51–52
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Figure 4: The eroded northern outskirts of Admah 1
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Figure 5: Ashen vestiges of parallel streets and buildings 2
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Figure 6: Remains of a traditional Canaanite double wall (cf. Gomorrah’s city wall)
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Figure 7: The Gates of Admah
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Figure 8: Eroded façades
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Figure 9: Several collapsed buildings in a parallel street (the evenly spaced squarish holes held the cedar beams that supported the second floor)
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Figure 10: Heavily eroded houses in the southern part of Admah
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Figure 11: Less eroded houses in the northern part of Admah 3
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Figure 12: Close-up of the ashen vestiges

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Figure 13: Entrance area (note again the former position of the beams 1 meter above the door as indicated by the outlines)
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Figure 14: Doorway and interior
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Figure 15: Central courtyard
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Figure 16: Room accesses filled with ash debris
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Figure 17: Built-in bench
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Figure 18: Staircase to the second floor
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Figure 19: View towards the exit
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Figure 20: Built-in shelf for storage
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Figure 21: Side entrance (cf. side entrance in Gomorrah on the right)
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Figure 22: Oven
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Figure 23: Close-up of the oven (the flatbread suggests sudden destruction) | Luke 17.28–33; 1 Thes 5.3
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Figure 24: The two adjacent houses viewed from a slightly different angle (the second oven on the left belongs to the next house)
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Figure 25: Admah’s entrance plaza and main street (extreme erosion on the right; note the isolated formation in the street)
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Figure 26: A roundish shape positioned in the middle of Admah’s boulevard
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Figure 27: Close-up of what appears to be the remains of a winged sphinx on a raised platform (cf. a sphinx in Gomorrah) 4
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Figure 28: Front left section
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Figure 29: Direct view of the front (note the distinct layers)
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Figure 30: Right front section
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Figure 31: Left rear section

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Figure 24: Ruin of dense, calcareous ash (note again the regular spaced holes for support beams)
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Figure 25: Heavily eroded houses in the wind-exposed city periphery
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Figure 26: Close-up of a wall showing billow-like folds of calcium carbonate (cream coloured) and calcium sulfate (white) 5
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Figure 27: Chunk of compacted ash composed of calcium sulfate, calcium carbonate and sulfur.
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Figure 28: Ruin surrounded by ash debris
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Figure 29: Admah viewed from a higher elevation
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Figure 30: Turret
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Figure 31: Part of the outer city wall
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Figure 32: Collapsed remains of one of Admah’s entrance-towers and city wall
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Figure 33: View toward the gate tower
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Figure 34: Side street at twilight
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Figure 35: Admah’s heavily eroded double city-wall at dusk (cf. Gomorrah’s well-preserved fortifications)
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Figure 36: Admah’s wall at sunset
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 Notes

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Unlike Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah is not wind-protected, which accounts for its tremendous amount of erosion.

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The ash-like substance is mainly composed of calcium sulfate as well as calcium carbonate and sulfur. Despite the outer crust, the ash easily
disintegrates into particles the consistency of talcum powder. Sulfur dioxide (SO2) released during burning reacts with limestone (CaCO3) to form
compounds containing sulfur and calcium which in turn oxidise into calcium sulfate (CaSO4) or gypsum.

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Since visibly ashen houses are hard to explain through lake-level fluctuations, respected petrologist Lorence G. Collins recently suggested an intriguing
hollowing-out project (we may assume by dangerous extremists who want to promote biblical myth). Once again Mr. Collins is well able to support
his astute conclusions with irrefutable scientific evidence. We therefore congratulate Mr. Collins that gradualism has been confirmed and neither the
Pleistocene Lake nor the Pleistocene itself need to go to the trash bin of scientistic myth.

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Deities protecting the entrance to the city reflect the centuries-long interaction between Canaan, Babylon, and Egypt. Across Israel we find that
Canaan adopted foreign culture including temple-towers and imagery of scarabs and winged sphinxes. Scarabs and ivories depicting human-headed
and falcon-headed sphinxes were found at Jericho, Lachish, Megiddo, and Gezer. See Daphna Ben-Tor, Scarabs, Chronology, and Interconnections: Egypt
and Palestine in the Second Intermediate Period (Göttingen, 2007), 178.

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Given that an alleged Pleistocene Lake Lisan presupposes a Pleistocene, the billow-like folds will hardly have resulted from regional earthquakes. The
swirling layers of ash are the outcome of burning sodium and calcium at approx. 2500°C, causing surface ionization, i.e. the attraction and repelling
of positive and negative ions.

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