Archaeologists Israel found out as it was destroyed the biblical city of Armageddon.
Archaeologists Israel found that tel Megiddo, the biblical city of Armageddon was destroyed by a super-strong fire that engulfed the village in just three hours.
In an article published in the journal Antiquity, said that the city of tel Megiddo, located in the North of modern Israel, in the distant past was one of the centers of civilization.
Archaeologists claim that the first settlements on the hill Megiddo appeared about six thousand years ago, and in a thousand years “the metropolis” became a key center of influence of Egypt in the middle East.
The reason for the fame of the city is its Hebrew name is “har Megiddo,” which was the basis for the Greek word Armageddon, which means the battle between good and evil during the end of the world. In accordance with the revelation, she was supposed to take place at tel Megiddo. However, the city three thousand years ago managed to survive the “Apocalypse”.
These findings did Matilda Forge and Ruth Shahak-gross from the Institute of science Weizmann in Israel, studying the fragments of mud bricks from which they built houses, the inhabitants of the ancient city. The chemical composition of the bricks pointed to the fact that they were inside a very hot fire, whose temperature reached 600 degrees Celsius.
The study researchers found that the bricks from tel Megiddo has really been in lights giant fire, which lasted only 2-3 hours. Scientists do not yet know why the city burned so quickly. There is only the assumption that the reason of fast ignition were the roofs of the houses, which were built of straw, wood boards, fabrics and other combustible materials.
The fire that destroyed the whole town, occurred in the first Millennium BC, in the era of the conquest of Canaan and Judea, dynasty 22 pharaohs of Ancient Egypt.
