According to the Bible, Admah (Heb. אַדְמָה) was one of the five cities of the Vale of Siddim.Bible: Genesis 14:2 It was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah.Bible: Deuteronomy 29:23 It is supposed by William F. Albright to be the same as the "Adam" of .Albright, W. F. "The Expedition of Xenia Theological Seminary and the American Schools". BASOR 14 (1924): 1–12 The location of Admah is unknown, although Bryant G. Wood a proponent of the southern theory for the Cities of the Plain identified the site with Numeira,Bryant G. Wood, “Have Sodom And Gomorrah Been Found?,” Bible and Spade 3, no. 3 (1974): 67 but later changed it to Khirbat al-Khanazir Jordan,Bryant G. Wood, “The Discovery of the Sin Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah,” Bible and Spade 12, no. 3 (1999): 67–80 although it was only a cemetery during the Bronze Age Meredith S. Chesson and R. Thomas Schaub, “Death and Dying on the Dead Sea Plain: Fifa, Al- Khanazir and Bab Adh-Dhra` Cemeteries,” in Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan, ed. Thomas Evan Levy et al. (London, U.K.: Equinox, 2007), 253 and proponents of the northern theory for the Cities of the Plain identify the site with Tel Nimrin, Jordan.https://www.ritmeyer.com/product/image-library/illustrating-the-bible/books-of-moses/admah-tall-nimrin/; Steven Collins, “Sodom and the Cities of the Plain,” in Lexham Bible Dictionary (Logos), ed. John D. Barry (Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2016), op cit.; David E. Graves, The Location of Sodom: Color Edition. Key Facts for Navigating the Maze of Arguments for the Location of the Cities of the Plain (Toronto: Electronic Christian Media, 2018), 70.
