In 2010, an expedition team of Hong Kong, China, and Turkey announced in Beijing, the Chinese capital, that a remnant had been found in a snowtop at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters in Mount Ararat.
After the U.S. national security analyst Porgil. Taylor, using satellite exploration photos, showed that the wooden structure covered mostly by snow in this Ararat mountain in eastern Turkey is likely to be the site of Noah's Ark.
The Legend of Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark is a legend recorded in the Hebrew Bible - Genesis, Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden by God for stealing forbidden fruit, Adam lived for a total of 930 years, and his descendants were countless, almost all over the earth.
Among the children born to Adam and Eve, a man named Cain was vicious by nature, and in the Bible he was an evil being.
God cursed the land, so that human beings had to rely on labor to obtain food, and human nature was stimulated, and began to fight with each other for the grain of the land, and the earth thus unveiled a period of human killing each other.
God began to regret that he had created mankind, ready to take away all this sin with a flood. So noah's family was chosen, they were the only pure beings who were not affected by evil, and his three children were not misguided under Noah's guidance.
God wanted to keep Adam as the seed of the new age of humanity, telling them to build an ark out of Gopher wood, with an internal layout to be separated from each other, and the inside and outside were smeared with rosin to prevent water from entering the ship.
After some time, the ark of 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high, with a total of three floors above and below, was officially completed, and God was very satisfied, and made a pact with Noah that he and his wife, son, and daughter-in-law would enter the ark, and that all clean animals would bring seven males and seven females; unclean animals would bring one male and one female; and the birds flying in the air would bring seven males and seven females. These can be planted and will be reproduced on the ground in the future.
On February 17, the Great Flood of God's destruction of sin came, and a huge column of water gushed out from the ground, and a torrential downpour ensued, and the earth was swallowed into the sea almost instantaneously, except for the creatures living in the water and Noah and other people and animals, all died in this flood.
It rained heavily for 40 days, and the ark carried everything that God had placed high hopes on the surface of the vast sea.
The Bible records that Noah's Ark finally docked on Mount Ararat, Noah released crows and pigeons to explore whether the water level had dropped, the crows never returned, the pigeons returned because they could not find their feet, and finally the pigeons went away at the third time. Noah disembarked, and the ark ran aground on Mount Ararat at an altitude of 4,000 meters.
It doesn't match the legend
Of course, the above is a myth and legend, and there is still a certain conflict with real science, and scientists and Buteo have proved that if an elbow is 1.5 inches, Noah's Ark should be 13.4 meters high, 22.3 meters wide, 133.5 meters long, and a total capacity of 40,000 cubic meters. This kind of space is not enough to hold all the creatures on land.
In this regard, experts have consulted the Yavine Code in the Pentateuch of Moses in the 5th century BC, which contains events about Noah's Ark and does not mention the covenant between God and Noah. Perhaps Noah's Ark did not house all the animals on land.
Internal discovery
In April 2010, there was an expedition to join the Tu'er, and near the suspected Noah's Ark, some hull fragments were found, and the face history of the wreckage could indeed be traced back to genesis, coinciding with the time of the creation of the ark.
Soon after, the expedition managed to enter the interior of the structure and found a large number of pottery, rope-like objects, and seed-like objects inside the Ark.
After the discovery team announced the remains of Noah's Ark, in an interview, the square table had a total of 7 spaces, the largest 5 meters high and 10 meters long, divided into three layers, including a laughing compartment with a fence and wooden stake ropes. They speculate that it may be used to keep animals in captivity.
Hull material
They were also steadfast about the carbon elements that had always been on the line, dating correctly, and in keeping with many of the details described in history, except that the wood used to make the hull was cypress wood, not the Gopher wood mentioned in the Bible.
Hull proportions
The Ark recorded in the Bible has an aspect ratio of 6:1, and at the same time, a satellite aerial view shows that the remains of Mount Ararat also have an aspect ratio of 6:1.
Professor Taylor, who has been working on Noah's Ark since 1993, said he had no preconceived notions.
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But where there is a 0.1 percent probability that this is not the site of Noah's Ark, we will not be able to conclude the conclusive conclusion. To acknowledge Noah's Ark is to acknowledge the existence of God.
Does the inheritance of mankind and the continuation of civilization really rely on this small ark? We have to admit the smallness of human beings, this blue planet has too many unknowns that we cannot explain scientifically, but we have never stopped, and this may be the true definition of human beings - small and great.