Explorers visited Mount Ararat together in search of Noah's Ark.
China Daily News: Is the story of Noah's Ark recorded in the Bible true or legendary? Experts and scholars have been debating this for a long time. Many people believe that the remains of Noah's Ark are still preserved at the top of Ararat. According to American media reports on April 26th, a 10 investigation team composed of American and Turkish explorers will enter this mysterious mountain in July this year, looking for traces of Noah's Ark.
Does Noah's Ark really exist?
The Bible records the story of Noah's Ark: In order to punish the fallen human beings, God created an unprecedented flood. Only the kind Noah was ordered by God to build a huge ark and escaped the catastrophe with his family and some innocent animals. It rained for 40 days and nights. After the rain stopped, Noah's Ark floated in the Wang Yang for 7 days and finally anchored in the Ararat Mountains.
1949, Russian pilot Roskovsky took the first photo of Noah's Ark. The photo shows that there is a fuzzy dark spot under the thick ice on the top of the mountain, so many experts suspect that this is the "Noah's Ark" recorded in the Bible. However, due to the steep terrain of Mount Ararat, the local residents have been isolated from the world for a long time. For more than half a century, the conjecture about "Noah's Ark" has been a mystery.
1957, several Turkish air force pilots inspected the top of Ararat by plane and found this object in the shape of a boat, which aroused great interest of archaeologists all over the world. However, because it was during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union banned aircraft from various countries from entering the mountainous areas in the name of "preventing American spies from approaching the Soviet Union."
Nine years ago, Porche Taylor, an American expert in satellite image analysis, began to pay attention to this mysterious object called "Wonder of Mount Ararat". He spent several years collecting a large number of satellite images and classifying them, and finally found that it was a giant with a length exceeding 180 meters. But he doesn't know what it is. He thought it might be an ancient Turkish fortress, the wreckage of an airplane, or "Noah's Ark".
The United States-Turkey joint expedition entered the mountainous area in July.
In order to solve the mystery of Noah's Ark in Mount Ararat, Turkey and the United States sent top explorers to form this team of 10, who will enter Mount Ararat on July 15 this year and conduct a one-month investigation there. Daniel McGiven, the team leader, said: "We will not dig the mysterious object, let alone build a fake ark there. We will only take pictures there and let you see the real scene there. "
McGiven said that before entering the Ararat Mountains, the team members still need to do a lot of preparatory work, such as reading materials about the cultural customs and geographical features of the Ararat Mountains. He believes that the biggest problem they are facing now is how to communicate with local aborigines. Because the aborigines regarded these hills as gods and believed in the existence of Noah's Ark, they were unwilling to reveal the secrets about these hills to outsiders for generations.
Most members of the expedition said that for those who know the Bible, once the existence of Noah's Ark is confirmed, it will become the most legendary symbol in human history and a record of human evolution and development. They all think this is a very interesting and interesting job.
Noah's Ark-Introduction
The story of Noah's Ark comes from Genesis.
In ancient times, after God created Adam and Eve, their descendants soon spread all over the world, but they became very greedy, cruel and disrespectful to God. God thinks that human beings are guilty, and he is determined to drown them with floods, but he can't bear to destroy Noah with excellent moral character, so he said to Noah, "I have decided to help you and your wife, son and daughter-in-law." You have to build a big ark with rat wood, which hides all kinds of animals. " Noah built an ark 36 meters long, 23 meters wide and 13.6 meters high. No sooner had the ship been built than it rained cats and dogs for more than 40 days, and everyone on the earth drowned.
Noah's family took the ark and drifted to the top of the road in the Wang Yang. Then, the rain stopped, the flood receded slowly, and Noah's Ark docked at the mountainside of Da Aru. After the flood subsided, Noah's family walked out of the ark moored on the mountain road and began to reproduce on the earth. But Noah's ark will always be parked on the mountain road. There is no doubt that this story has a strong religious color.
Some scholars believe that this also reflects some ancient historical facts. Da lu shan, located on the Turkish-Iranian border, is now an extinct volcano. From the19th century, people began to look for the legendary Noah's Ark in da lu shan. French explorer and archaeologist John Fran Napina visited Da lu shan for Noah's Ark three times.
1955 In the summer, Napa and his son Nafaru climbed Mount Daaru for the third time, and a miracle appeared. They found an ark a little exposed on the glacier. The father and son were very excited and carefully dug up the residual wood blocks of the ark. The discovery of Noah's Ark caused a sensation in the world. The ark was transported to the University of Paris, the French Academy, the highest institutions of learning and archaeological institutions in Spain and Egypt.
Experts use advanced technologies such as carbon 14 to determine that these wood blocks are "Gefei wood", dating back 5000 years. According to the analysis of the concave and convex traces processed on the wood block, experts believe that this is a part of a large building. Experts speculate that this piece of wood is probably part of Noah's Ark, or a piece of wood specially made by Armenia to commemorate Noah's death. In any case, this is an important physical object left by ancient human legends about floods.
By the early 1980s, archaeologists from the United States, the Soviet Union, France, Germany, Japan and some countries in the Middle East found that there was indeed a big flood in the Lianghe Valley, one of the cradles of human civilization, five or six thousand years ago. In the ruins of King Barnabas Library in Nineveh, the capital of the ancient Assyrian kingdom, "clay tablets" were also unearthed, and there were also records of flooding on the clay tablets. Scholars infer from this that this is the reason why God instructed Noah to build an ark to escape the flood in the Bible. According to the analysis of the residual wood excavated in Pune, experts believe that Noah's Ark may be in Daru Mountain. Today, there are still thick glaciers from the mountain to the top of the Great Aru Mountain.
It is speculated that the weather may have changed greatly after the flood, and part of the flood was frozen into glaciers. When Noah and others climbed to the top of the mountain to escape the flood, the weather suddenly turned cold and the ark they were riding was frozen in the glacier.