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Mount Ararat: No parking

Stephen M. Miller
Noah's Ark and Mount Ararat
HIGH SEAS. It seems a little crazy, some would argue, to look for a cruise ship three miles above sea level. Yet that’s where people have been looking for Noah’s Ark, on Mount Ararat. Here’s a three-minute video I just released, explaining why the boat is probably not there: Noah’s Ark. Photo illustration by Stephen M. Miller; mountains by NASA; ark by Bert Knottenbeld/flickr.

NOAH’S ARK didn’t necessarily land on Mount Ararat, an extinct volcano in eastern Turkey.

The Bible says Noah’s barge landed in the “mountains of Ararat,” a range large enough to cover Kansas.

For the past 200 years, however, explorers have targeted Mount Ararat partly because it’s the highest mountain in the range.

Some claim to have seen the ark.

One French explorer, Fernand Navarra, carried home a five-foot (two-meter) log of hand-cut timber he said he found 13,000 feet (about 4,000 meters) up the mountain. Carbon tests dated the wood to a max of 1,200 years ago. Some speculate the wood may have been part of a monument built by Crusader-era monks, intended for visiting pilgrims.

In the third century BC, a Babylonian priest named Berossos said some people in the area claimed to know where Noah’s ark was. He said some even wore charms made from the ship’s waterproofing material, asphalt-like tar found in tar pits.

“The ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.” Genesis 8:4
• Highest mountain in Ararat range
• Elevation: 16,945 feet (5,165 meters)

From Illustrated Bible Dictionary, by Stephen M Miller, published by Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Used by permission.

Noah’s Ark, the 3-minute video

 

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STEPHEN M. MILLER is an award winning bestselling Christian author of easy-reading books about the Bible and Christianity and author of the Casual English Bible® paraphrase. His books have sold over two million copies and include The Complete Guide to the Bible and Who’s and Where’s Where in the Bible.

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