Post by Devin Farmer on Jun 26, 2014 14:20:35 GMT -5
Kirkuk| The violent storms which have hit northern Irak recently, have unearthed the remnants of a gigantic antique ship dating approximately 10 000 years. It is the heavy rains of the last weeks which have badly damaged the roads and caused major landslides in the governates of Dahuk and Kirkuk, that have uncovered the carcass of the huge cargo vessel, near the summit of Mount Gir-e Kumar. The amazing size of the boat and its location at more than 1650 meters above sea level, have brought various scholars to claim that this could be the vessel described in the Biblical flood narrative (Genesis chapters 6–9) by which God saves Noah, his family, and a remnant of all the world’s animals.
The first people to notice the boat, were employees of the Ministry of Transport who had been called on the site to repair a road that had been carried away by a mudslide. They warned their superiors of the find and a team of archaeologists and other experts were rapidly dispatched to the location, to preserve the enormous structure and collect various samples. Due to the small part of the ship that was revealed at first, they were convinced that they were looking at a Roman or Phoenician merchant vessel, but remained puzzled by its inexplicable location. A more extensive excavation however revealed that the ship was much bigger than they first thought and the carbon dating analysis of the wood samples revealed its age as thousands of years older than expected, dating back somewhere between 8 500 and 7800 BC.
According to Genesis 8:4, the Ark came to rest “on the mountains of Ararat”, but many different theories have emerged over the years as to what mountains exactly was supposed to correspond to this description. While later Christian tradition had placed the Ark near the summit of Mount Ararat, the Syrian tradition of the early centuries AD had a tradition of the Ark landing at Mount Judi, where according to Josephus the remains of the ark were still shown in the 1st century AD. The location of the “Place of Descent” described by Josephus was some 100 km to the southeast of the peak now known as Mount Ararat, placing it in Northern Irak, almost exactly at the site of today’s discovery.
The ship, made of Lebanese cedar coated with pitch, is of truly gigantic dimensions. It reaches slightly over 125 meters in length, 21 meters in width and just under 13 meters in height. These dimensions are astonishingly close to the dimensions of the Ark as described in the Genesis, which are given as 300 cubits by 50 by 30 ( which converted in the metric system would translate as 137.16m long by 22.86m wide by 13.716m high). The ark had three internal decks, a door in the side, and a skylight. It is by far the biggest and most complex ship ever found from that time period, and is even the biggest wooden ever recorded, forcing a complete redefinition of the known history of shipbuilding.
A more thorough search of the site should be completed over the next months if the political and security conditions allow it. The region has been at the epicenter of a lot tensions since in capture by Kurdish Peshmergas earlier this year, just after the great offensive of the Organization for an Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant against the governmental forces.
Searches for Noah’s Ark, sometimes mockingly referred to as arkeology, have been made from at least the time of Eusebius (c.275–339 AD) to the present day, and many scholars and archaeologists have claimed to have discovered it in the past. In June 2006, Bob Cornuke of the Bible Archeology Search and Exploration Institute (or BASE Institute) took a team of 14 American “business, law, and ministry leaders” to Iran to visit a site in the Alborz Mountains, purported to be a possible resting place of the Ark. The team claimed to have visited an “object” 13,000 feet above sea level, which had the appearance of blackened petrified wooden beams, and was “about the size of a small aircraft carrier” [120 m], and supposedly consistent with the dimensions provided in Genesis of 300 cubits by 50 cubits. No one outside the expedition has offered independent confirmation however, and apart from a few purported beams, no photographic images of this supposed Ark in its entirety have been made available.
In 2007, a joint Turkish-Hong Kong expedition including members of Noah’s Ark Ministries International (NAMI) also claimed to have found an unusual cave with fossilized wooden walls on Mount Ararat, well above the vegetation line. In 2010, NAMI released videos of their discovery of the wood structures. Members of Noah’s Ark Ministries International reported carbon dating suggests the wood is approximately 4,800 years old. It is unlikely that there was any human settlement at the site at altitude of 4,000 meters. Randall Price, a partner with Noah’s Ark Ministries International from early 2008 to the summer of 2008, stated that the discovery was probably the result of a hoax, perpetrated by ten Kurdish workers hired by the Turkish guide used by the Chinese, who planted large wood beams taken from an old structure near the Black Sea at the cave site.
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The first people to notice the boat, were employees of the Ministry of Transport who had been called on the site to repair a road that had been carried away by a mudslide. They warned their superiors of the find and a team of archaeologists and other experts were rapidly dispatched to the location, to preserve the enormous structure and collect various samples. Due to the small part of the ship that was revealed at first, they were convinced that they were looking at a Roman or Phoenician merchant vessel, but remained puzzled by its inexplicable location. A more extensive excavation however revealed that the ship was much bigger than they first thought and the carbon dating analysis of the wood samples revealed its age as thousands of years older than expected, dating back somewhere between 8 500 and 7800 BC.
According to Genesis 8:4, the Ark came to rest “on the mountains of Ararat”, but many different theories have emerged over the years as to what mountains exactly was supposed to correspond to this description. While later Christian tradition had placed the Ark near the summit of Mount Ararat, the Syrian tradition of the early centuries AD had a tradition of the Ark landing at Mount Judi, where according to Josephus the remains of the ark were still shown in the 1st century AD. The location of the “Place of Descent” described by Josephus was some 100 km to the southeast of the peak now known as Mount Ararat, placing it in Northern Irak, almost exactly at the site of today’s discovery.
The ship, made of Lebanese cedar coated with pitch, is of truly gigantic dimensions. It reaches slightly over 125 meters in length, 21 meters in width and just under 13 meters in height. These dimensions are astonishingly close to the dimensions of the Ark as described in the Genesis, which are given as 300 cubits by 50 by 30 ( which converted in the metric system would translate as 137.16m long by 22.86m wide by 13.716m high). The ark had three internal decks, a door in the side, and a skylight. It is by far the biggest and most complex ship ever found from that time period, and is even the biggest wooden ever recorded, forcing a complete redefinition of the known history of shipbuilding.
A more thorough search of the site should be completed over the next months if the political and security conditions allow it. The region has been at the epicenter of a lot tensions since in capture by Kurdish Peshmergas earlier this year, just after the great offensive of the Organization for an Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant against the governmental forces.
Searches for Noah’s Ark, sometimes mockingly referred to as arkeology, have been made from at least the time of Eusebius (c.275–339 AD) to the present day, and many scholars and archaeologists have claimed to have discovered it in the past. In June 2006, Bob Cornuke of the Bible Archeology Search and Exploration Institute (or BASE Institute) took a team of 14 American “business, law, and ministry leaders” to Iran to visit a site in the Alborz Mountains, purported to be a possible resting place of the Ark. The team claimed to have visited an “object” 13,000 feet above sea level, which had the appearance of blackened petrified wooden beams, and was “about the size of a small aircraft carrier” [120 m], and supposedly consistent with the dimensions provided in Genesis of 300 cubits by 50 cubits. No one outside the expedition has offered independent confirmation however, and apart from a few purported beams, no photographic images of this supposed Ark in its entirety have been made available.
In 2007, a joint Turkish-Hong Kong expedition including members of Noah’s Ark Ministries International (NAMI) also claimed to have found an unusual cave with fossilized wooden walls on Mount Ararat, well above the vegetation line. In 2010, NAMI released videos of their discovery of the wood structures. Members of Noah’s Ark Ministries International reported carbon dating suggests the wood is approximately 4,800 years old. It is unlikely that there was any human settlement at the site at altitude of 4,000 meters. Randall Price, a partner with Noah’s Ark Ministries International from early 2008 to the summer of 2008, stated that the discovery was probably the result of a hoax, perpetrated by ten Kurdish workers hired by the Turkish guide used by the Chinese, who planted large wood beams taken from an old structure near the Black Sea at the cave site.
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