IGDIR, Turkey (AFP)–A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers said on Monday they believe they may have found Noah’s Ark – 4000 meters up Mount Ararat.
The team say they recovered wooden specimens from a structure on Mount Ararat, located in eastern Turkey, that carbon dating proved was 4800 years old, around the same time the ark is said to have been afloat.
“It’s not 100 percent that it is Noah’s Ark but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it,” said Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker and member of the 15-strong team from Noah’s Ark Ministries International.
The structure had several compartments, some with wooden beams, which were believed to house animals, he said.
The group of evangelical archaeologists ruled out an established human settlement on the grounds that one had never been found above 3500m in the vicinity, Yeung said.
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, Yeung added.
The biblical story says God decided to flood the earth after seeing how corrupt it had become and told Noah to build an ark and fill it with two of every animal species.
After the flood waters receded, the Bible says, the ark came to rest on a mountain. Many believe that Mount Ararat, the highest point in the region, is where the ark and her inhabitants came aground. Mount Ararat and much of eastern Turkey are the historic homelands of the Armenian people. They were occupied and annexed by Turkey following the Armenian Genocide and World War I.
“It’s not 100 percent that it is Noah’s Ark but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it”
it is perfect time to demand & claim our lands , to bring ARARAT home.
Foreigners stay out of Armenian lands.
OK, I understand you defend your Ideas, but wasn't the statement of Annexed by Turkey just rıdıculous?Mount Ararat, Azerbaıjan and Caucasus were part of the Ottoman Empıre long before World War I. In fact Turks lost these areas after the war. Does not look ratıonal.
Please note that the words Ararat and Urartu have the same consonants but different vowels. Historically consonants have stayed the same but vowels have changed.
Therefore, Ararat is a corrupt way of saying Urartu. So, when we talk about biblical Mt. Ararat, we are actually talking about mountains of Urartu which scholars have identified as north Kurdistan Mountains in Northern Iraq!
Scholars at the University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania are having a good laugh! What a fraudulent claim!
You can read about this news all over the web, but nowhere Armenia is mentioned, except here. Only shows how media is controlled even in U.S.