SUMMER EXPEDITION PLANNED TO PROVE EXISTENCE OF NOAH’S ARK
(Washington-AP) — An expedition is being planned for this
summer to the upper reaches of Turkey’s Mount Ararat, where
organizers hope to prove that an object protruding from the snow
and ice is Noah’s Ark.
Daniel McGivern, who’s financing the trek, says the goal is to
enter what they believe to be a mammoth structure that was
partially exposed by last summer’s heat wave in Europe.
Explorers have long searched for an ark on the nearly
18-thousand-foot mountain, where the biblical account of the Great
Flood places it.
McGivern and Ahmet Ali Arslan, a Turkish mountain climber who
grew up near Mount Ararat, say satellite photos have helped them
pinpoint a location. Arslan will be leading the expedition.
The Bible’s Book of Genesis says that after the great deluge,
the ark came to rest on the mountain with Noah’s family and a cargo
of male and female pairs of every kind of animal.