 It was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah.It is supposed by William F. Albright to be the same as the "Adam" of .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, but later changed it to Khirbat al-Khanazir Jordan, although it was only a cemetery during the Bronze Age  and proponents of the northern theory for the Cities of the Plain identify the site with Tall Nimrin, Jordan.