Underwater archaeology may or may not confirm this assertion. But what the patriarch saw was the column of smoke from some form of disaster. Failing conclusive archaeological evidence, the Cities of the Plain must be listed as lost. B.C. One of the names in the list refers to the name Sadam or the biblical Sodom presumed to be below the Dead Sea. B.C. Names like Jerusalem, Sodom, Gomorrah, Haran, and Ur appear in the texts.
Some scholars state that the above claim has been disproved.
If you have been grasping what this book is stating about Abram and Abraham, you can see the dilemma of recent scholars and archaeologists in that they are in conflict with dates. This area is now a dry and barren landscape.