Noah's Ark

Noahs ark is a fable.

Edited by machine - 30-Jun-2006 at 06:58

i remeber reading about that they found signs of it in mountains in turkey.

Some said it was found on Mt. Ararat, but it is too high and cannot be reached. A modern(?) myth.

MT ararat

I saw a documentary on that. Apparently, following the very blurry picture from the 1950s, several expeditions have attempted to search the remains of the ark, but found nothing. The report concluded that it was simply a photographic trick or coincidence, rather like the Loch Ness pictures. Subsequent pictures of the same area did not show the same object (they showed only rock).

Edited by Decebal - 30-Jun-2006 at 16:12

This recent article was posted on teh front news page of AOL (American Online)

Edited by minchickie - 06-Jul-2006 at 04:54

I only see slabs of stone on those AOL pics....

I really dont know about it. I am not at all religious (of any kind) but it would be cool for archaeological reasons if it is found. On the other hand, I believe it was Marco Polo who made note of the ship? or was it the heavy floods that matched up to that time frame(on his way back from China)? In any case, a great exploration!

There have been at least 3 Noah's Ark candidates:
1. A wooden ark up in Mt Ararat. (Wonder if this one shows on google maps/earth?)
2. The Durupinar Ark near Dogubayzit in eastern Turkey not far from Mt Ararat, sometimes called the Tendurek ark. The sightings by Russian airplane pilot in Tsar's times was probably this one. People involved with investigating this ark include Ron Wyatt and David Fasold (his book 'Discovery of Noah's Ark'). Geologist Lorence Collins claims this one is a geological formation. But it may depend on what 'gopher' is, and on the lava that engulfed it in later times.
3. Cornuke's claimed ark candidate in Mt Suleiman in n.w. Iran (which he reckons was part of ancient Urartu). (I didn't think this one was as far east as Elburz. But apparently it is in Elburz. Interestingly i have also considered that Elburz might be Ararat when i was looking for Aratta thereabouts and noticed similar names.)

Not sure where you could find photos. Could try google images. Chick publications and Crusader comics had some bits on some of the claimed sightings/finds.
Other areas i have also considered are Himalayas, and Antarctica.

The bible says the ark came to rest in the mountains of Ararat which name is often considered to be cognate with Urartu (and the Alarodians in Herodotus), though Rohl? suggested it may match Aratta of ancient Sumerian epics.
Josephus said the ark was to be seen/found in Armenia in his days and cited Berosus saying similar.
The ark's landing site in other accounts is Lubar (Jewish), Nisir/Nimush (Sumerian), Amasis/Masis/Baris (Akkadian), Judi/Djoudi (Arab/Muslim), Parnassus (Greek).

Ararat might be relate to either: Urartian? Alarodian (Herodotus)? Aratta? Arsareth (Esdras)? Araxes? Aryana-vaejo? Araret (5th/6th dyn, Bey)? Arctic/Antarctic? Aralu/Arali? Agartha/Agarthi? Anatolia? Alalakh? Arzap? a_rata? Aranzah(as)? Eridu (Oannes)? La-ra-ak? Allatu? Arfaday (Moriah)? Uauat? Uluru? Altai? Atlas?

A geologist said to me that Noah wouldn't have had enough lumber to build and ark, and couldn't have cut it with obsidian tools, etc. Gopher might not be wood.

I couldn't find a free transliterated version of the epic of Gilgamesh but in the English translation it implies he built it from his reed hut material.

The Hebrew says atzey-gofer (atzey "tree/firmness/wood/sticks", gopher/gofer "to house in, a kind of tree/wood (as used for buildng), cypress?")

Greek has xylon tetragonon "square timber"
Latin has lignis levigatis "smoothed/planed wood"
Aramaic has qadros "cedar"
Syriac has arqa "box"

Gopher has been suggested to be similar to either:
Egyptian Khepera/Khepri/Khopri "cement, dung"
Aramaic/Syriac kaphar/kophra "tomb"
Greek kopron "dunghill"
Babylonian gushure is erini "cedar beams"
Assyrian giparu "reeds"
Greek kuparisson "cypress"
Hebrew kofer/kopher "pitch(ed wood)"
English/Indoeuropean coffin.

Hebrew g = Egyptian kh, e.g. Negev/Negeb & Nekhab.