Noah's Ark found. Great Evidence.

Newspaper: While routinely examining aerial photos of his country, a Turkish army captain suddenly gaped at a picture... There, on a mountain 20 miles south of Mt. Ararat, the biblical landfall of Noah's Ark, was a boat-shaped form about 500-515 feet long. The captain passed on the word. Soon an expedition including American scientists set out for the site.

At 7,000 feet, in the midst of crevasses and landslide debris, the explorers found a clear, grassy area shaped like a ship and rimmed with steep, packed-earth sides. Its dimensions are close to those given in Genesis: 'The length of the ark shall be 300 cubits, the breadth of it 50 cubits, and the height of it 30 cubits,' that is, 450x75x45 feet. A quick two-day survey was made. A scientist in the group says "a ship-like object that has almost unbroken symmetry." ~Life Magazine 1960

Original 1959 Photo of the "Boat Shape".
The image taken in 1959 by the Turkish Captain Ilhan Durupinar during a NATO mapping mission. (He was known to be alive in Sept. 2007.)

Located 6,375 feet above sea level.

According to some sites this is the direction of the flow down the mountain. So I made up a image from googleearth showing the direction this may have taken. This mountain is called "Walls of Heaven". The landing point at the top has had some significant ancient evidence found. (If you have more information about the original landing site, before it's current day resting place, feel free to comment at the bottom)

"Walking over miles and miles of rugged terrain, one of the men motioned for Ron to take his photo by a very large standing rock. Only when he looked through the viewfinder did Ron realize that this "rock" was identical to the anchor stones found in the Mediterranean Sea that he had seen in archaeological books. That is except for one thing -- this "rock" was many, many times larger!" - Ron Wyatt -

Drogue stones were a feature of ancient ships, and were the ancient equivalent of a storm anchor. They have been found in the Nile and elsewhere in the Mediterranean area, and like the stones found by Wyatt, they are heavy and flat with a hole for connecting a line at one end. Their purpose was to create drag in the water or along shallow sandy bottoms: the stone was attached to one end of a boat, and the drag produced would cause the bow or stern to face into the wind and the oncoming wind-blown waves. These anchor stones are found surrounding the site of the ark-shape.

More about the Anchor Stones (Drogue Stones) on Wiki: Arzap Drogue Stones (Ron Wyatt is the true discoverer of the stones, others visit later).

"Therefore, Noah probably stored the food and water near each animal. Even better, drinking water could have been piped into troughs, just as the Chinese have used bamboo pipes for this purpose for thousands of years. The use of some sort of self-feeders, as is commonly done for birds, would have been relatively easy and probably essential. Animals that required special care or diets were uncommon and should not have needed an inordinate amount of time from the handlers. Even animals with the most specialized diets in nature could have been switched to readily sustainable substitute diets. Of course, this assumes that animals with specialized diets today were likewise specialized at the time of the Flood."
Quote from: answersingenesis: "How did Noah take care of the Animals?"

"I have no doubt at all that the object is a ship. In my entire career, I have never seen an object like this on a stereo photo"

~ Dr. Arthur Brandenburger, A Stereo Photogramatry Expert, who accompanied the group of US and Turkish Experts to the region on an expedition to see this shape.

The first photo has Noah's Ark in the whole bottom portion. The second image (googleearth) has a view from the sky, it has Noah's Ark as a tiny speck in bottom portion. Both looking towards the mountains of Ararat.

See more: Photo: Click Here to For FAQ used with permission. CC All Rights Reserved.

If there was a Flood, most living things would have perished, and so we would expect a 'cut-off' point at this time. In other words, going into the past, we should reach a period of time in which there is a sharp reduction in the number of specimens compared to the period just older than that, and as we went forward in time, we would expect a gradual buildup, as plant and animal populations recovered their numbers.

Such a study has been done by Dr Robert Whitelaw. Using the 15,000 published dates, he grouped them into 500 year 'blocks' and found a dramatic drop-off about 5,000 years ago, with a worldwide distribution (Speak to the Earth, Ed. G. Howe. Presb. & Ref. Pub. Co, p.. 331).

NEW DVD of Ron Wyatt's discoveries. Great photos and video. If you liked this page you'll love this DVD.

Supposedly a New Find: Latest "discovery" made inside the Mount Ararat

News: APRIL 26, 2010 - Noah's Ark Found? - "The 15-person team claims to have recovered fragments of wood and pieces of rope from a structure on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey" (-Huffington Post)

This April 26, 2010 wood chamber "find" is NOT THE SAME location as the 1960s-70s find at Durupinar, Turkey. This chamber is NOT evidence connected to the ark shape (the boat shape moved by lava flows and rests in its current place.) Notice the cob webs!

Quotes about the chamber find:
- "There was one claim that it could just be a shepherd's hut, further proof will be needed. Getting to the sight will be very hard and will require a team of people to parachute in." (-Peter Chubb, PR)

- There was an expert on abcnews video that said He was not 99% sure it (wood chamber) was Noah's Ark exactly, but needs more investigation.

- "The wood's in too good a shape to be that old," - Richard Rives of WAR.

- Regarding some of the photos published online, Bob Cornuke told American Family Radio, "There are cobwebs up in the beams. You're not going to have wood at 14,000 feet in a glacier to have cobwebs in it. It's impossible to have that situation." - Bob Cornuke

- "This is not Noah's Ark," adds Bob Cornuke of the Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration Institute. "This is a fake. It's a fraud and it's of the highest caliber according to what I can assess from the evidence and talking to eyewitnesses and people from Turkey."

- "To make a long story short: this is all reported to be a fake," said Randall Price, director of Judaic Studies at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.

- Dr. Randall Price sent an e-mail dispatch to supporters asserting the structure is a hoax perpetrated by a Kurdish guide and his partners to extort money from Chinese evangelical Christians. To see his email click here: wnd.com

- "I was the archaeologist with the Chinese expedition in the summer of 2008 and was given photos of what they now are reporting to be the inside of the Ark."... Read Dr. Price's entire letter: bibleplaces.com

Just to be clear, this last segment (in black) is about the "discovery" of wood inside Mount Ararat, it's NOT the same location as the boat shape found by Mr. Wyatt. This whole page is dedicated to Ron Wyatt's discovery at Durupinar, Turkey, this "chamber find" is another site entirely and has no relation that I can find.