Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 24, DeMotte, Jasper County, 5 January 1933 — Proof of High Culture in Sodom and Gomorrah [ARTICLE]

Proof of High Culture in Sodom and Gomorrah

The inhabitants of Sodotu and Gomorrah reached a high state of culture before they were destroyed by “brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.’’ The people of the two cities lived before the Iron age, but they exercised great ingenuity in utilizing other materials. The excavators found stone ovens in the irrectangular houses. These are similar to ovens still in use in some peasant parts of northern France. England, Wales, and Ireland. Traces of violent conflagrations were found in the ruins, tending to confirm the Biblical story of the city’s destructions One excavator said that on the plain b^low the hill on which the cities stood there was a curious rock formation, about five feet high, which legend associates with Lot’s wife, who, according to the Biblical story, was turned into a pillar of salt at the time the cities were destroyed. The excavators penetrated twentysix feet and dug through three cities, each, built on the ruins of another. Underneath these three, they said, is probably a fourth. The ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah were found in the top layer.