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Noah's Ark ( Hebrew: תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) [ Notes 1] is the boat in the Genesis flood narrative through which God spares Noah, his family, and examples of all the world's animals from a global deluge. [ 1] The story in Genesis is based on earlier flood myths originating in Mesopotamia, and is repeated, with variations ...
Searches for Noah's Ark. A reliquary displaying a piece of wood at the museum of Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Armenia, said to be from Noah's Ark. By tradition Jacob of Nisibis received the wood from an angel during his search for the Ark. Searches for Noah's Ark have been reported since antiquity, as ancient scholars sought to affirm the ...
Noah’s Ark is said to have come to rest on the mountains of Ararat following a 150-day flood about 5,000 years ago. Researchers now believe they’ve found evidence of human activity near the ...
The Durupınar site ( Turkish: Durupınar sitesi) is a geological formation of 164 metres (538 feet) made of limonite on Mount Tendürek, [1] [2] adjacent to the village of Üzengili in eastern Anatolia or Turkey. The site is 3 km (1.9 mi) north of the Iranian border, 16 km (9.9 mi) southeast of Doğubayazıt in the Ağrı Province, and 29 ...
The project was documented in a 2014 TV documentary for the UK's Channel 4 called The Real Noah’s Ark. It was later Americanised for Secrets of Noah's Ark that aired as an episode of PBS's NOVA series. [3] His study was described in his book The Ark Before Noah. It was widely reported in the news media. [4] [5]
Mount Ararat is a polygenic, compound stratovolcano. Covering an area of 1,100 km 2 (420 sq mi), it is the largest volcanic edifice within the region. Along its northwest–southeast trending long axis, Mount Ararat is about 45 kilometers (28 mi) long and is about 30 kilometers (19 mi) long along its short axis.
Picture of the Ararat anomaly taken by the U.S. Department of Defense in 1949 1973 Keyhole-9 image with Ararat anomaly circled in red. The Ararat anomaly is an alleged structure appearing on photographs of the snowfields near the summit of Mount Ararat, Turkey, and advanced by some Christian believers as the remains of Noah's Ark.
Depiction of Noah's ark landing on the "mountains of Ararat", from the North French Hebrew Miscellany (13th century). In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat (Biblical Hebrew הָרֵי אֲרָרָט , Tiberian hārê ’Ǎrārāṭ, Septuagint: τὰ ὄρη τὰ Ἀραράτ) [1] is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood. [2]