The team says radiocarbon-dated wood taken from the discovery site-whose location they're keeping secret for now-shows the purported ark is about 4,800 years old, which coincides roughly with the time of Noah's flood implied by the Bible.

'We believe that the wooden structure we entered is the same structure recorded in historical accounts. 'The structure is partitioned into different spaces,' said Noah's Ark Ministries International team member Man-fai Yuen in a statement. Many Christians believe the mountain in Turkey is the final resting place of Noah's ark, which the Bible says protected Noah, his family, and pairs of every animal species on Earth during a divine deluge that wiped out most of humanity. They returned to the site with a film crew in October 2009. The team claims to have found in 20 seven large wooden compartments buried at 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) above sea level, near the peak of Mount Ararat. Raw Video: Purported Site of Noah's Ark in Turkey (Courtesy Noah's Ark Ministries International) 'It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's ark, but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it,' Yeung Wing-cheung, a filmmaker accompanying the explorers, told The Daily Mail. Turkish and Chinese explorers from a group called Noah's Ark Ministries International made the latest discovery claim Monday in Hong Kong, where the group is based. 'I don't know of any expedition that ever went looking for the ark and didn't find it,' said Paul Zimansky, an archaeologist specializing in the Middle East at Stony Brook University in New York State. (See 'Noah's Ark Discovered in Iran?' and 'Noah's Ark Quest Dead in Water-Was It a Stunt?')

A team of evangelical Christian explorers claim they've found the remains of Noah's ark beneath snow and volcanic debris on Turkey's Mount Ararat (map).īut some archaeologists and historians are taking the latest claim that Noah's ark has been found about as seriously as they have past ones-which is to say not very.

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