In plain sight: A ship-shaped object. The right size as described in scripture, and radar shows that this object has rooms.
Could it be? That while expeditions have braved the ice and storms of the lofty Mt. Ararat looking for the Ark high on its slopes, it could actually be on a nearby hill in relatively plain sight? The bible states that the Ark came to rest “in the mountains of Ararat” (plural), and thus the ship doesn’t need to rest directly on the highest peak there to qualify as the real thing. See Genesis 8:4. Read on. You’ll find this interesting.
Noah’s Ark Introduction
Eastern Turkey
The Durupinar site at Köprüköy, 76002 Kavaktepe/Iğdır Merkez/Iğdır, Türkiye
There was a bit of a sensation on September 5, 1960 when Life magazine published an article and a dramatic aerial photo of a large object in Eastern Turkey that looked remarkably like a ship. Early studies dismissed the object, located in the foothills of Mt. Ararat, as a coincidence, and thus the site fell into obscurity once again. Read on. This site was destined to gain new attention a couple of decades later.
In the meantime, several adventurers started looking high up on the slopes of Mt. Ararat and came up empty-handed.
The Durupinar Site Revisited
During the 1980’s, Ron Wyatt, an anesthetist from Tennessee, visited the ship-shaped object at the Durupinar site in Turkey and scanned the structure with ground penetrating radar. His scans showed a boat shaped layout under the surface, complete with vertical wall structures within the hull shape. Ron concluded that this was indeed a man-made object. Over the next number of years, Ron visited the site numerous times and performed more tests. Vertical beams were clearly visible even when standing beside the edge of the structure. And Ron’s radar tests showed a pattern of rivets and beams.
On one occasion, with representatives of the Turkish government present, a laminated beam was seen on radar. The specimen was dug up by the Turkish military at that time and later analyzed by Galbraith Laboratories in the United States. The laboratory tests confirmed that the specimen was petrified wood because it was once organic carbon.
Laminated hand-wrought wood. Five layers of timber. Glued together with pitch. Clearly visible layers when viewed from the end.
Resistivity Scans
A New Zealand based scientist has put considerable effort into scanning the site with resistivity technology. The results are remarkable and clearly show that this is a man made structure.
Turkish authorities gave permission to have the site of the boat-shaped object scanned using a deep penetration resistivity ground imaging technology called Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT). John Larson of New Zealand did the scans. The scans were able to reach 125 ft. down. The resolution of the 3D images is excellent.
Resistivity imaging was originally developed for oil and mineral exploration. The technology has become very helpful in archaeology. John Larson did significant work at the site in 2014. The scans show that this object is man-made and that it accurately fits the measurements of Noah’s Ark as described in the Bible. A visit to ArkSubSurface.nz will tell you much more about these remarkable findings.
Conclusion
So do all these discoveries and tests tell us anything? Clearly the answer is, yes. Perhaps the adage fits … “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.” It tells us at the very least that someone did indeed build a very large boat with 3 decks and many compartments and that the remains of the boat rest in a place that is far away from any body of water. Why? Sounds like the Ark of the Bible.