Noah's Ark found atop Mount Ararat in Turkey, group claims

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Noah shepherded them through the flood, two by two, and ended up in Turkey.

That's what a group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers is claiming, after having found what it says are pieces of the religious icon's famed boat on Mount Ararat.

"It's not 100% that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9% that this is it," Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker, told AFP.

Wing-Cheung, a member of the 15-member team from Noah's Ark Ministries International, said the structure in which they got the wood had several compartments that were possibly used to store animals.

According to the Bible, Noah was tasked by God to build a giant ark after deciding to flood the world because humanity had become too corrupt.

Mount Ararat has long been believed to have been the final resting place of the ark, which according to be Bible, came to rest upon the top of a mountain.

Carbon dating shows that the wood the group recovered was 4,800 years old, which would put it around the time of the ark, the team claimed.


In Schagen Netherlands a local man was previously reported to having built an exact replica of Noah's Ark. Johan Huibers began building in May 2005 and is reported to have built every sq. inch on his own. The only difference is that Huiber did build his ark with more modern day tools using cedar and pine.

Huibers Ark measures 150x30x20 cubits and is in equal size to two thirds of a football field being as tall as a three story building.

Huiber's now shares his finished work with the public and allows visitors to walk through the Ark. Once on board the visitors are greeted by life size replicas of animal pairs. This ark also has something that Noah's didn't a 50 foot theater where families can enjoy a movie depicting the story of Noah's Ark. This sounds like a great place to visit the only catch is to view Huiber's Ark you will have to be visiting The Netherlands.




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