One end was pointed as you would expect from bow and the opposite end was blunt like a stern. Ever since then various claimants, most notably Ron Wyatt, have asserted that the “boat-shaped formation” found there contained the remains of Noah’s Ark: A group from the Archeological Research Foundation surveyed the site in September of that year. Photographs of the site were published in Life magazine in 1960. He identified it in a Turkish Air Force aerial photo taken during a NATO mapping mission in October 1959. It was named for Turkish Army Captain Ilhan Durupinar.

Durupinar features a boat-like formation reportedly exposed by heavy rains and earthquakes in 1948. It is located just north of the Iranian border. One of those is the Durupinar site, an area in the Mount Tendürek area of eastern Turkey. A number of different expeditions have laid claim to discovering physical evidence of such a vessel. Over the years many different sites have been identified as the place where Noah’s Ark came to rest. They’ve also looked to uncover evidence documenting that the ark described in Genesis did indeed exist. Once the floodwaters receded, “the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.”įor many centuries, religious scholars, philosophers, explorers, and others have attempted to determine just where in the world the “mountains of Ararat” actually are. In that Biblical account, Noah and the ark’s other inhabitants found themselves as having survived the cataclysmic deluge that flooded the surface of the Earth. According to scripture, God decided to destroy the world with a flood due to regret over “how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth.” Image via Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Currier & Ives/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Upon God’s instruction, he built the ark to preserve himself, his family, and the animals of the world.

One of the most familiar accounts found in the Old Testament book of Genesis was the story of Noah’s Ark.

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