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Has Noah’s Ark been found?

Noah’s Ark is mentioned in the book of Genesis and in the Qur’an. According to the story, God was dismayed with the wickedness of humanity and decided to purge the world and start again. He commanded the only righteous man, Noah, to build a great Ark and to take on board all his family and pairs of every living creature. The Ark was huge and when it was finished and everyone was aboard, God sent a great flood to destroy every living thing that remained. Only those in the Ark were spared as it floated on the flood waters. Then, when the rain stopped and the flood waters went down: ‘The Ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat’ (Gen 8:4) and Noah, his family, and all the animals repopulated the earth again.

For centuries explorers have tried to find the Ark, but with no success for the mountains of Ararat are high and the peaks are covered with ice. Despite rumours and local legends, no real evidence emerged — until recently.

In 1948, an aircraft from the Turkish Air Force, taking aerial photographs of recent mud and ice slides on the mountains, took a picture of a strange shape, which had been under the ice for centuries until the heavy rains had caused the ice to slide away. It was a dark blemish in the snow that looked like a huge boat-shaped structure. It was at the top of Mount Ararat itself — an area known by local people for thousands of years as ‘Noah’s Mountain’. It was a place that, mysteriously, outsiders were not permitted to visit.

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