Explorers plan quest in search of Noah's Ark: Expedition would target Mount Ararat this summer (thanks, Adam!!!)
Satellite imagery of Turkey's Mount Ararat highlights an object within a red circle, with blue arrows indicating possible downslope movement. The imagery was captured by Digital Globe and made available through Shamrock-The Trinity Corp. Explorers hope to determine whether the object is linked to the story of Noah's Ark.
OK, here's what I want to know: how in the hell do you get a boat the size of a freighter 17,820 feet up a mountain in the middle of nowhere in Eastern Turkey?
There are those who believe that this picture may well be part of Noah's Ark. An interesting idea, to be certain, and one that scholars and believers have spent generations exploring. What does it mean? That the story of Noah's Ark really is more than a bedtime story? Who knows? It does raise some interesting possbilities, eh?
Originally the Black Sea was a fresh water lake fed by the major rivers of western Russian. Several thousand years ago something, probably an earthquake, opened it to the Mediterranean and it filled rapidly.
Robert Ballard has found villages below the Black Sea miles from shore.
Considering the force of a tidal surge from a hurricane that I have seen, that amount of water rushing in to fill the basin could carry a boat quite a ways up a mountain.
With only a 20 foot storm surge, hurricane Opal in 1995 carried several 40 to 60 foot vessels well inland until they hit buildings.