The Real Noah’s Ark Was Found In Turkey; Expedition Team Claims They’re 99.9% Sure

The expedition team claims that their discovery is 99.9 percent sure.



A team of evangelical Christian explorers claimed that they’ve just found the remains of Noah’s Ark covered with snow and volcanic debris in the Mount Ararat in Turkey.

But then, historians and archaeologists claimed that the latest discovery of Noah’s ark is more serious than the past discoveries.



“I don’t know of any expedition that ever went looking for the ark and didn’t find it,” said Paul Zimansky, an archaeologist specializing in the Middle East at Stony Brook University in New York State.

The Noah’s Ark Ministries International with Turkish and Chinese explorers made the latest discovery, claiming that they’ve just found the remains of Noah’s ark.



“It’s not 100 percent that it is Noah’s ark, but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it,” Yeung Wing-Cheung, a filmmaker accompanying the explorers, told The Daily Mail.

The team claims that in 2007 and 2008, they’ve found seven large wooden compartments all buried at 13,000 feet above sea level, near the peak of Mount Ararat. In 2009, they decided to return to the site and try to investigate what happened.



Christians believe that the mentioned mountain in Turkey was the final resting place of Noah’s ark, which the Bible claimed protected Noah and other species during a divine deluge that wiped out most of the humanity.



“The structure is partitioned into different spaces,” said Noah’s Ark Ministries International team member Man-fai Yuen in a statement. “We believe that the wooden structure we entered is the same structure recorded in historical accounts. … ”



The team also claims that the radiocarbon-dated wood taken from the site shows that the purported ark is about 4,800 years old, which obviously coincides the time of Noah’s flood implied by the Bible.

However, Todd Wood, the director of the Center of ORigins Research at Bryan College in Tennesse, was a bit skeptical of the claims.

“If you accept a young chronology for the Earth … then radiocarbon dating has to be reinterpreted,” because the method often yields dates much older than 6,000 years, Wood said.

He also added that the wood that the expedition team had discovered was way too young.

“I’m really, really skeptical that this could possibly be Noah’s Ark,” he added. The wood date is “way, way, way too young.”

Todd Wood also thinks that the Noah’s Ark will never be found because it would have been prime timber after the flood.

“If you just got off the ark, and there’s no trees, what are you going to build your house out of? You’ve got a huge boat made of wood, so let’s use that,” he said. “So I think it got torn apart and scavenged for building material basically.”

Another factor that makes people skeptical about the claims is that Genesis, the first book of the Bible, didn’t specify which peak the vessel landed.

“The whole notion is odd because the Bible tells you the ark landed somewhere in Urartu,”—an ancient kingdom in eastern Turkey—”but it’s only later that people identified Mount Ararat with Urartu,” said Jack Sasson, a professor of Jewish and biblical studies at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.



According to the report made by the National Geographic, if the woods do not belong to the Noah’s Ark, then it could possibly belong to the shrines that were constructed by the early Christians.