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This is some fucking cool archeology and science to figure this out, a short article well worth.thw read. I love any evidence that solidifies the stories of our past.
"The destruction at Tall el-Hamaam (TeH on the map above) was complete and terrible. Buildings were sheared off at ground level, their mud bricks blasted into gravel or melted into bubbling foam. Globs of bubbling molten salts melted into the surface of the paving bricks. Melted titanium and iridium splattered into the pottery and roof tiles, whose outer surfaces bubbled like boiling caramel, then vitrified into greenish soda-lime glass. Do you know how hot it has to be to make clay foam and bubble like spaghetti boiling over? Hotter than it takes to fire the clay. Hotter even than it takes to wreck stoneware by baking it into melted slag. Material has to be nearly a free-flowing liquid to make bubble structures like these."
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/327326-blast-more-powerful-than-tunguska-may-have-devastated-ancient-city?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
"The destruction at Tall el-Hamaam (TeH on the map above) was complete and terrible. Buildings were sheared off at ground level, their mud bricks blasted into gravel or melted into bubbling foam. Globs of bubbling molten salts melted into the surface of the paving bricks. Melted titanium and iridium splattered into the pottery and roof tiles, whose outer surfaces bubbled like boiling caramel, then vitrified into greenish soda-lime glass. Do you know how hot it has to be to make clay foam and bubble like spaghetti boiling over? Hotter than it takes to fire the clay. Hotter even than it takes to wreck stoneware by baking it into melted slag. Material has to be nearly a free-flowing liquid to make bubble structures like these."
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/327326-blast-more-powerful-than-tunguska-may-have-devastated-ancient-city?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
