The group claims that carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years
old, meaning they date to around the same time the ark was said to be
afloat. Mt. Ararat has long been suspected as the final resting place of
the craft by evangelicals and literalists hoping to validate biblical
stories.
"The significance of this find is that for the first time in history the
discovery of Noah's Ark is well documented and revealed to the worldwide
community," Aalten said at a press conference announcing the find.
Citing the many details that match historical accounts of the Ark, he
believes it to be a legitimate archaeological discovery.
"There's a tremendous amount of solid evidence that the structure found
on Mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey is the legendary Ark of Noah," said
Aalten.
Local Turkish officials will ask the central government in Ankara to
apply for UNESCO World Heritage status so the site can be protected
while a major archaeological dig is conducted.
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A catastrophic flood on Earth is spoken of in many ancient cultures: in
Sumerian, Babylonian, Greek, Hindu, Gallic, Scandinavian and Chinese
legends. Some even predate the Old Testament.
The odd thing, Zimansky says, is that even though there are written
accounts of the flood in all these cultures, archaeologists have yet to
find evidence of it.
If you take the Bible literally, Zimansky says, "this ark is going to be
deposited in an archaeological context which would be a flood stratum.
And it's not going to be a little flood stratum. It's going to cover the
entire Earth. Well, no such flood stratum exists."
And that's where Morris disagrees with archaeologists like Zimansky.
"It all depends on your presupposition," says Morris. "I think they're
looking at it through the wrong glasses."
Morris says a great flood would shape the landscape of the entire planet
- carving out crevices like the Grand Canyon, even separating huge
masses of land like the African and South American continents.
"Everything on earth gives evidence of the flood," Morris says.
That is why he is convinced something is up there on Mt. Ararat. He says
there have been hundreds accounts from eyewitnesses saying they saw what
looked like a big ship. Some of those accounts, he says, are from pilots
who flew over the area during World War II. Considerable amounts of
military data and ground-penetrating imaging have reported showing a
shape of something manmade on the mountain.
Taylor is also convinced Noah's Ark is there, because of the Ararat
anomaly's shape and size. "The boat-shaped Ararat anomaly and Noah's Ark
both have a 6-to-1 length-to-width ratio," he says.
The Ark, depending on how you measure a cubit, could be anywhere from
450 to 600 feet long. The anomaly is 1,200 feet. But, Porcher says,
scientists have debated for years the length of a cubit, which is
thought to be the length of a man's forearm between the elbow and the
tip of his finger. But whose elbow?
The Bible talks of "the Nephilim" (Genesis 6:1-4) being in the world at
that time. The Nephilim were giants or a very large race. If a cubit was
measured by the length of a very large man's forearm, Porcher says that
would mean "the ark was much larger than previously thought."
(Homo heidelbergensis; According to Professor Lee R. Berger of the
University of Witwatersrand, numerous fossil bones indicate some
populations of Heidelbergensis were "giants" routinely over 2.13 m (7
ft) tall and inhabited South Africa between 0.5 million and 300,000
years ago. They lived alongside Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.)
Many experts have concluded from examining the photos that the images
are of rock formations that strongly resemble the boat described in
Genesis.
Whatever it is, it convinces Morris, and countless others, to keep
returning to Mt. Ararat, hoping to find what their faith tells them can
be found.
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