Map showing key cities/entities relating to the biblical account of Sodom and Lot. Note in particular the locations of Bethel and Ai, with Tall el-Hammam on the far eastern side of the alluvial Jordan plain; also note the territorial spread of Lot’s descendants, the Ammonites and the Moabites. This, in distinction to the far southern Dead Sea region of Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira, invisible from Ai and Bethel.