ItcheSrulik – lol on the word “circa”. I know it means “around”, and shares roots with “circle”. And I know it’s colloquially used to refer to a year date and not to a length of time. However, it was too tempting, and I couldn’t to avoid the inserting of some old school tongue in there.
Sam2 – That’s not really true. Egyptologists have to dig to uncover ruins in similar desert environments all the time. And they’re often in the middle of the abandoned desert, not in urban areas. Courtesy of the Discovery Channel. Yes, I grew up with a TV in the house, oy vey! Now that I think of it, many of these Egyptian ruins are less ancient than the story of Sdom, and even they got buried…. Kal vechomer baby!