No, it's not an actual pottery style.  In this episode, Dr. Collins and Dr. Byers show examples of pottery found at Tall el-Hammam that have been encrusted with salt.  The Dead Sea is well known for its salt and mineral content, but how did the salt get all the way up the valley to Tall el-Hammam?  Enjoy the discussion in this episode!

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Pottery is the timepiece of a site.  Pottery forms help date when a civilization existed.  In this episode, we look at some of the analyses being performed on the pottery from the "Palace Complex" at Tall el-Hammam.  

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A continued discussion about a cosmic event that wiped out the cities of the plain in the Middle Bronze Age. The evidence suggests an airburst event occurred. Dr. Byers and Dr. Collins continue to discuss in Part 2, the evidence that 22 researchers & scientists unaffiliated with the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project have provided. Published in Nature Scientific Reports, this paper is making an impact in the scientific community.

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A cosmic event wiped out the cities of the plain in the Middle Bronze Age. The evidence suggests an airburst event occurred. Dr. Byers and Dr. Collins continue to discuss the evidence that 22 researchers & scientists unaffiliated with the Tall el-Hammam Excavation Project have provided. Published in Nature Scientific Reports, this paper is making an impact in the scientific community.  

This paper can be found at:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3  

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Dr. Collins and Dr. Byers discuss the recently published paper in Nature Scientific Reports, on the airburst that destroyed Tall el-Hammam in the Middle Bronze Age. This paper was the collaboration of 22 researchers in various fields, lead by our own Dr. Phil Silvia. Learn what impact this paper is making! 

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The site of Tall el-Hammam has hundreds of thousands of stones that did not move up the hill by themselves.  Dr. Collins and Dr. Byers discuss what the ancient people built with all of these big rocks.  What a lot of work!

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Some people say, "You can't have it all!"  But we do! The location of Tall el-Hammam put it right along one of the major trade routes in the Holy Land.  Dr. Collins and Dr. Byers finish their discussion on how the location of Tall el-Hammam put it smack dab in the geographic background of many of the events in the Bible.

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Having the right real estate is important for the survival of a civilization. The site of Tall el-Hammam was built upon by various cultures all throughout history.  After the destruction of the Middle Bronze civilization, it was never rebuilt as a major city, but the excavation shows it was occupied again with buildings, even into the time of Jesus.  In this episode, Dr. Collins and Dr. Byers speculate about its use during the time of Moses and Joshua. Did the Israelites camp on the destroyed site of the city of Sodom? Did God possibly redeem that land he cursed by allowing His Holy Ark of the Covenant and the Tabernacle to reside on the very spot of evil He so violently judged? Find out what our archaeologists think!

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Just as today, ancient people understood the importance of location when deciding where to camp or put a city. The Plain of the Jordan Valley has always been one of the most important crossroads in the entire Holy Land. Everybody from Abraham to Jesus journeyed across the Kikkar (Plain of the Jordan). In this episode, Dr. Collins and Dr. Byers talk about the possibility of Moses and Joshua camping the Israelites at Tall el-Hammam, in this first part of a series on Tall el-Hammam's importance as a location for thousands of years and in many events throughout the Bible.

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Fighting with Sickle Swords and Duck-Billed Axes...Really? Sounds like a cartoon. Archaeologists may have strange names for ancient weapons, but they would still hurt...a lot!  Dr. C and Dr. B. show off some of the ancient weapons in the collection at the Trinity Southwest Museum of Archaeology and Biblical History. Stick around! You'll get the point!

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