Bab edh-Dhra cemetery (Khirbet Qazone), Jordan

Here are a number of images from the Bab edh-Dhra cemetery (Khirbet Qazone or Qayzune) taken during my visits in 2010 and 2014. Although some have considered this to be the OT biblical Sodom the Early Bronze destruction (evident from the pottery and carbon dating of those who excavated the site), the majority of scholars place Abraham and Lot in the Middle Bronze Age ruling out this site. A more promising site is Tall el-Hammam on the north end of the Dead sea that has a massive Middle Bronze Age settlement and destruction.

Map close-up of the area around Bâb Edh-Dhrâʿ and Khirbet Qazone cemetery.

Map of the archaeological sites in
the southern end of the Dead Sea.

Salt beach of the southern end of the Dead Sea (Nov 2013).

Panoramic view of the archaeological site of
Bab edh-Dhra and the Khirbet Qazone cemetery to the left.

Dr. David E. Graves standing in the Khirbet Qazone cemetery.

The Khirbet Qazone cemetery.

Dr. David E. Graves standing on the edge of a
charnal house (grave facility) in the Khirbet Qazone cemetery.

Early Bronze Pottery. Bab edh-Dhra cemetery
from British Museum display

Reconstructed Early Bronze tomb from the shaft tombs
from the Khirbet Qazone cemetery.
(Lowest Point on Earth Museum, Jordan)

Reconstructed Early Bronze cooking pot from the pieces
left behind from the looters of the Bab edh-Dhra cemetery.