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Spanning ten millennia, from the earliest civilization to the Arab conquest, The Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land is the definitive one-volume reference to the ancient lands of the Bible, fusing scientific discovery and literacy and religious tradition to produce a deeper understanding of the history of human culture. Here the settings of the world's three major religions are...

All efforts to locate the site of Sodom have been fruitless. It has been sought at the southern and northern ends of the Dead Sea; while other excavators have looked for it in the depths of the sea. The name Sodom, however, has been preserved in the Arab Jebel Usdum, Mount Sodom, a hill of table salt near the southwestern shore of the Dead Sea.