If it could be verified that this wooden structure is indeed 4,800 years ago, that would be notable - whether or not it came from an ark. He said he was presented with earlier samples of wood from Ararat that he was told were dated to just 1,400 years ago.Īlso, one of the factors behind the scientists' skepticism is that there has been no published research about these finds. Many comments relate to carbon dating: In this case, Kuniholm is not questioning the validity of carbon-dating techniques, but just wondering whether the dating was done correctly. "Press releases are not the way archaeology advances." "It would be nice to know what they have found - if there's a scientific publication in the offing," he told me. Zimansky said he would welcome hearing more about the site. Yeung said local Turkish officials were trying to win protected status for the site, so that a more extensive archaeological dig could be conducted. "It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it," Yueng Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker who was on the exploration team, said in a report from the AFP news service.
Because the evidence of habitation in that area is scant, Noah's Ark Ministries International said the best explanation for the artifacts' existence was. They said several compartments had been found, some with wooden beams, and suggested that the compartments were used to house animals. Leaders of the Chinese-Turkish expedition said wooden specimens recovered from the structure on Ararat had been carbon-dated to yield an age of 4,800 years. That expedition was organized by Hong Kong-based Noah's Ark Ministries International, the group that is also behind the fresh reports appearing this week. The latest report appears to follow up on a 2007 expedition that came upon a wooden structure "in the interiors of an unusual cave" at the 14,700-foot level of Ararat's slopes. It seems as if evidence of the ark pops up at least every couple of years - and not always in the same place. (Others, meanwhile, have looked for evidence of an ancient flood in Turkey's Black Sea region or Iran.) Over the centuries, 16,946-foot Mount Ararat and the nearby boat-shaped Durupinar rock formation have emerged as the favored locales for ark-hunters.
Ararat) as the landing zone for the ark, but not a specific peak. Zimansky points out that Genesis identifies the mountains of Urartu (a.k.a. Animals were sent to seek shelter in the ship and ride out a flood that wiped out the entire world. In the Book of Genesis, God tells Noah to build a boat that would be longer than a modern-day football field and more than three stories high. The quest to find remnants of the Bible's most famous cargo ship goes back to, well, virtually biblical times (or at least back to the time of the ancient historian Josephus). Cornell archaeologist Peter Ian Kuniholm, who has focused on Turkey for decades, was even more direct - saying that the reported find is a "crock."
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