Bab edh-Dhra
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'''Bab edh-Dhra''' (''bāb al-dhrā' '') is the site of an Early [[Bronze Age]] city, located near the [[Dead Sea]], in [[Wadi Araba]], forwarded as a candidate for the location of Biblical [[Sodom and Gomorrah|Sodom]].
[[Bitumen]] and [[petroleum]] deposits have been found in the area, which contain [[sulfur]] and [[natural gas]] (as such deposits normally do), and one theory suggests that a pocket of natural gas led to the incineration of the city.
The location of the site is (approximately) 31.253928°N, 35.534184°E (by correlating the maps at http://www.nd.edu/~edsp with Google Earth. The site can be viewed [[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=&ll=31.253928,35.534184&spn=0.005641,0.007499&t=h&z=17&om=1) here]].
Artifacts from Bab edh-Dhra are on display at Karak Archaeological Museum in Jordan.
==See also==
*[[Numeira]], candidate site for [[Gomorrah]]
==External links==
*http://vm.arts.unimelb.edu.au/report/babedhra.htm
*http://www.dantiques.com/bab-edh-dhra/
*http://www.nd.edu/~edsp
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