New hunt for Noah’s Ark

- According to the Bible, the vessel that carried two of every type of animal came to rest in eastern Turkey.

A new expedition is to be launched this summer to try and find positive evidence that Noah’s Ark came to rest on Turkey’s Mount Ararat.

Announcing plans for the expedition on Monday, Daniel P. McGivern, president of Shamrock - The Trinity Corporation of Honolulu, Hawaii, said a joint US-Turkish team wanted to investigate a large object buried in the snow on the side of the mountain.

The object, some 14 metres high, 22 metres widen and 140 metres long, became partly visible last summer during a heat wave.

However, McGiven said the expedition only aimed to take photographs to prove the object was the Biblical Ark.

“We are not excavating it,” he said. “We are not taking any artefacts. We’re going to photograph it and, God willing, you’re all going to see it.”

One of the members of the 10 person team is Ahmet Ali Arslan, a Turkish mountain climber who grew up in a town near Mount Ararat. According to Arslan, recent satellite photos have helped them pinpoint a more exact location of where the Ark is supposed to rest.

Source: NTVMSNBC