Scott Manley posted a rebuttal at [1] recently. He's not an archaeology expert but he does provide references to experts who disagree with the hypothesis.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0h4QNt4FLE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0h4QNt4FLE</a>
See also : <a href="https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest/status/1443314576716484613" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest/status/14433145767164846...</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest/status/1443660700455342102" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/MicrobiomDigest/status/14436607004553421...</a> or <a href="https://pubpeer.com/publications/37B87CAC48DE4BC98AD40E00330143#4" rel="nofollow">https://pubpeer.com/publications/37B87CAC48DE4BC98AD40E00330...</a>
Discussed at length about a week ago, here:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28603118" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28603118</a>
This is 100% fiction.<p>21st century and people still believe in Sodom and it's destruction.<p>The I don't believe god I believe natural things delusion. This is part of the scam. By saying it's not magic, as an atheist you have to believe them else you believe in god.<p>Meteor's don't do this. If they did we'd see it elsewhere. (Please don't say Tunguska or the made up events like Ch'ing-yang)<p>Back when no one was around and most people did not live in cities, 8000 people died in magic town. But we've never seen it again in modern times with most of the population in cities and everyone has a cell phone and satellites or going back 500 years, printing to actually record it.<p>Archaeologists write fiction. This is not hard to understand, they are the same as historians, they are artists. They tell good stories. Some of their stories overlap with reality a bit. That's not the case here.