Excavations at the Oriental city of Ghor, some kilometres from the Dead Sea, were completed today by the Rome Pontifical and Biblical Institute. The work was under the supervision of Father Mellon, Jerusalem director of the Institute. The excavations uncovered a large city destroyed by fire at the close of the first Bronze Age and never subsequently rebuilt. Human skeletons, the foundations of several houses, the oven of a granary mill, ceramics, silex insruments and various minerals were unearthed.
Later diggings turned up the foundations of stone walls between which straight streets ran in all directions and couches of ashes. It is believed the city was destroyed about twenty centuries before Christ. The date and character of the ruins induce Father Mellon to think that the expedition has discovered the Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah.
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