Sodom during the time of Abraham and Lot
Tonnichiwa
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Hello everyone.
I decided to enter the monthly light challenge over at the Cartographer's Guild. This is my entry for a place to vacation for the summer. In my case, I wanted to go see the archaeological dig going on over in the country of Jordan. This is my map of what it is all about. This is still a Work in Progress.
Enjoy
I decided to enter the monthly light challenge over at the Cartographer's Guild. This is my entry for a place to vacation for the summer. In my case, I wanted to go see the archaeological dig going on over in the country of Jordan. This is my map of what it is all about. This is still a Work in Progress.
Enjoy
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Keeping each other company on both forums I see!
Watching this one with interest
So I've added a bit more. It is difficult to make this map because I am relying on the archaeology to see where the buildings are, and trying to match the buildings as best I can to the real ones is difficult.
Anyway, here is the updated map. Enjoy.
How about importing the photo you are working from and making it a very transparent sheet underneath the buildings and trees and things that you are adding, so that people can see just how much work you are putting into making this an accurate map of the place?
But if you want to go see it, you can go to:
tallelhammam.com
You can see the photographs and images in many different places and in the archaeology reports.
Looking through some of the papers online, it's clear several objects that have had some of their near-surface layers turned into a glassy substance have been recorded from this area, and the interpretations put on them so far could be seen as favouring a high-powered meteoritic impact or airburst event (the latter is much more probable, given the lack of a definable, substantial crater). This might not be the only explanation, however.
It may be worth considering revising the text with your map to reflect this better, and the fact it seems primarily to be Phil Silvia and his colleagues who are calling it the "Kikkar Event"; I can't seem to find any useful discussion of it by members of the impact science community so far, at least not online, which would have at least given an added degree of robustness to the case.
Fossils are often radioactive because the replacement process favors uranium in the groundwater.
The natural reactor at Oklo was discovered because the fissible uranium isotope (U235) was depleted in certain parts of the ore body. A couple of billion years ago the total amount of uranium was higher and it had been concentrated via the same sorts of processes that make fossils more radioactive than you might expect.
Fun stuff.
I just about spazzed during my visit to Pompeii (and Rome). Something so ancient and educational would be a real adventure.
Are we allowed to link video's on this site?
Anyway, the whole reason I wanted to do this one was because I wanted to map an ancient city. But not just ANY city. It had to be one that everyone used to think was nothing but myth, but had been found to be real. I had thought of possibly mapping the Ancient City of Troy, or one from Meso America that had been found under the ocean. I thought about Ancient Babylon,, and even about one of the cities of the Amorites, a people who the world thought was just a myth until information about them was uncovered sometime around 2013 or 2014.
But when I learned about Sodom, I couldn't resist. So now I'm trying to keep up on as much of it as I can.
And Lorelei, if you are interested, his website DOES give information about how you can volunteer to be a member of the Dig when the digging season starts. Unfortunately, I wish I would have known that the season is in January before I said I wanted to go visit it sometime in summer. So for this year, the dig season is already over.