Archaeological Discoveries
Noah's Ark Found!
How it all began
The Noah's Ark site became prominent in the late 1950s when high altitude photography revealed a boat shaped object in the mountains of Ararat. Although dismissed by some, on the 11th September 1959, while studying around 10000 aerial photographs, Captain Ilhan Durupinar from the Turkish army, noticed the boat shaped object. Believing that the shape of the object could not have been formed by nature, and after calculating the length and the width, he concluded that the boat shape was possibly the remains of Noah's ark.
The following year an expedition was sent into the Ararat Mountains , and the boat shaped object which had been identified in the aerial photograph was located. The report of their findings was later published in Life Magazine on the 5th September 1960. Having read the Life Magazine article in 1960, Ronald E. Wyatt, an anesthetist from Tennessee, believed that the site required further investigation. In 1977, Ron Wyatt began what become several trips to the site conducting various experiments to determine what it was. The results were spectacular, using ground penetrating radar, metal detectors and core drilling a massive man made structure was revealed at this remote site over 6000 ft high in the mountains of Ararat.
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