Al-Hijr
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE[15:76]
for, behold, those [towns] stood by a road that still exists.

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* v.76 : The existence of that road, which led from northern Hijāz to Syria, skirting the Dead Sea – to the north-east of which Sodom and Gomorrah were situated – has received startling confirmation through aerial photographs recently published by the American School of Oriental Research (New Haven, Connecticut). These photographs clearly show the ancient road as a dark streak winding northwards, more or less parallel with the eastern shores of the Dead Sea.