On April 28, 2010, a team of researchers announced that the remains of Noah's Biblical Ark were found on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey at an altitude of over 4,000 meters. In an interview, the members of the expedition said that they are 99.9% sure that the find is precisely Noah's Ark.
The Bible says that Noah's ark stopped on Mount Ararat after the flood. The location of the discovered ark matches exactly the location described in the book.
View of Mount Ararat, located in the east of Turkey.
The remains of the tree date back to around 4800 BC. e., which corresponds to the period of the existence of Noah's ark.
The find is about 133.5 meters long, 22.3 meters wide and 13.4 meters high. There are also several compartments, one of which has a wooden fence and several ropes, as well as ceramics. There are small compartments with wooden beams, probably for transporting animals.
This is also consistent with the records in the Bible. It says that Jehovah revealed to Noah the way of building the ark and its dimensions: three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. The ship must be three-tiered, a light window must be made in the roof of the upper one, and a door on the side of one of them.
One cubit is the length from the elbow to the tip of the finger, about 45 cm, based on this calculation, the length of the ark is about 130 meters.
The indigenous people of these places have always believed in the existence of Noah's ark. They considered Mount Ararat divine, but for a long time did not want to reveal its secret.
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The 13th century traveler Marco Polo was there and wrote about it in his diary:
Thousands of years ago, when there were no means of communication and means of communication, stories like the story of Noah's ark appeared among many peoples of the world. And they almost always mention the great flood.
Today, many geographic, archaeological and satellite studies have also confirmed that in ancient times people did experience a devastating disaster, that is, a flood that flooded the entire earth.
"The Flood", Michelangelo, fragment of the painting of the Sistine Chapel.
God chose Noah
The Bible says that Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden after they ate the forbidden fruit. They began to live on Earth and gradually they had many children.
Humanity grew, and greed, envy and vices grew every day. People fought with each other, killed, robbed, violence filled the world.
Jehovah, seeing that people on earth are committing terrible atrocities, decided to destroy humanity with the help of a flood.
Noah believed in God. He strictly observed God's instructions and raised his three sons so that they would not go astray. When the man turned 480 years old (then the life span of a person could reach 900 years), Jehovah told him that God had chosen Noah's family as the seed for the new humanity.
Jehovah also told Noah: if people's hearts do not return to good, they will be destroyed by a flood. But God did not want people to die, he gave them one last chance and postponed the flood for another 120 years. If humanity repents by that time, then the calamity will pass them.
Jehovah told Noah to build an ark of gopher wood to save himself from the flood. Gopher is a type of cypress. Its resinous and hard wood does not rot and withstands water pressure. In addition, the inside and outside of the ark had to be covered with resin.
Noah led the family to build the ark on the mountain. People were curious, and Noah conveyed to everyone the warning of Jehovah: a person must live according to the will of God, otherwise God will destroy them with a flood, the end will come, the sky will burst into a heavy downpour, and the earth will flood, repentant people can go to the ark and receive atonement from God for their sins.
Painting by an unknown artist "Construction of Noah's Ark", 1675.
There was no change of seasons on earth at that time. All living things were protected by a layer of water in the atmosphere. The temperature did not change, it was warm and very humid. And it never rained on Earth.
People have never seen rain, and they did not understand what rain is. How could they have believed in the flood? Therefore, people laughed at Noah: what kind of flood can there be? Besides, you are building an ark on a mountain, how can you carry it to the water?
Noah, too, never saw rain and did not know what it looked like, but did not doubt God's word, he believed God's words more than his life experience.
Noah seriously told people that if God told him to do this, then God had planned everything. In the future, the flood will flood all the mountains, and then the ark will float.
But people thought Noah was a fool. They believed more in themselves, in their experiences and judgments.
During 120 years, given by God, Noah built a ship and told people the truth. He urged people to enter the ark with him to avoid the flood. But year after year, people continued to be guided by their desires, do evil and chase after pleasures, no one believed and did not repent.
Finally, the ark was built. Noah was 600 years old by that time.
On the 17th of the second month, the date set by God came. Following His command, Noah brought his wife, three sons and their wives to the ark. As well as birds, livestock and a couple of animals of each type. When everyone entered, God sealed the doors of the ark.
Seven days later, a heavy rain fell, which did not stop for forty days and nights: the water rose and the ark floated on the waves. Everything was covered with water, even the mountains were flooded. All people and animals and plants living on land drowned.
"Noah's Ark" illustration by Gustave Dore.
Then God stopped the rain and sent the wind to the earth. The water began to gradually subside.
A few dozen days later, Noah opened the window of the ark and released the raven, which returned back. Then he released the dove, but since the water was everywhere, the dove flew to the ark. Seven days later, Noah released the pigeon again, and at dusk the bird returned with an olive branch in its beak. Noah realized that the water on the ground was asleep. And the ark was moored at Mount Ararat.
A year later, when the earth dried up, Noah's family and all the animals left the ark.
Gradually, people and animals settled again around the world. After the flood, due to the loss of the protective water layer in the Earth's atmosphere, the climate changed and the seasons began to change.
Why did Noah's ark have a rudder?
The Bible says that the shape, material, size, and characteristics of Noah's ark followed God's design. But the ship had no rudder. Why? The remains of the ark show that it does not have a front window and a viewing window in the cockpit, but there is an opening in the ceiling that only lets light through. How to steer a ship without a rudder?
Perhaps, when the end of the world came and there was nowhere to escape from the disaster, people did not need to look at the world around them, they only needed to look at God.
The biblical story of Noah's ark on a church stained glass window.
There was no rudder on Noah's ark because it was ruled by divine power. A person completely surrenders himself into the hands of God, and only then the soul receives support, fate has a direction, and a person has a future.
God's plans go far beyond human designs, and the human mind can never comprehend them.
If the existence of Noah's ark is proven, then the story about him will become a direct warning to posterity.