Description: Joel Klenck, Noah's Ark, Ararat Archaeological Site
Joel Klenck
Caption: Area B, Locus 2, Ararat archaeological site. Potential reliquary covering an entrance to a more ancient wood corridor covered by bitumen or resin and showing the affects of oxidation that has turned the Cyprus wood ( Cupressus sp.) black. The wood corridor is more than five meters in length. Credit: PRC, Inc.
During the past 15 years, individuals and groups ascended the southern gorge of greater Mount Ararat ( Agri Dagi ) and allege to have found Noah’s Ark . Noah’s Ark is recorded in the Bible (Genesis 5-10) and Quran (Surah 3, 7, 11, 17, 26, 37) as an ancient, monumental, maritime barge that was constructed by Noah and his family to save his family and all animal kinds from a global flood. There are now eighteen (18) people claiming to have been at the archaeological site of Noah’s Ark. These individuals and g