The Noah’s Ark Mystery: Has a 4,300-Year-Old Secret Finally Been Found in Turkey? For thousands of years, the story of Noah's Ark has lived somewhere between faith, history and mystery. The Bible describes a colossal vessel carrying Noah, his family and animals through a devastating flood before eventually coming to rest in the mountains of Ararat. Generations have searched for physical evidence of that story, but every promising discovery has eventually produced another question. Now, high in the mountains of eastern Turkey, researchers are once again digging into the mystery. At the centre of the renewed investigation is the Durupınar formation , an enormous boat-shaped geological feature near Mount Ararat. Its unusual outline has fascinated explorers since it appeared in aerial photographs in 1959, when Turkish army captain İlhan Durupınar identified the strange formation during an aerial survey. The structure stretches for roughly 157 metres, a measurement that su...
The Noah’s Ark Mystery: Has a 4,300-Year-Old Secret Finally Been Found in Turkey? For thousands of years, the story of Noah's Ark has lived somewhere between faith, history and mystery. The Bible describes a colossal vessel carrying Noah, his family and animals through a devastating flood before eventually coming to rest in the mountains of Ararat. Generations have searched for physical evidence of that story, but every promising discovery has eventually produced another question. Now, high in the mountains of eastern Turkey, researchers are once again digging into the mystery. At the centre of the renewed investigation is the Durupınar formation , an enormous boat-shaped geological feature near Mount Ararat. Its unusual outline has fascinated explorers since it appeared in aerial photographs in 1959, when Turkish army captain İlhan Durupınar identified the strange formation during an aerial survey. The structure stretches for roughly 157 metres, a measurement that su...