New Noah’s Ark ‘working idea’ emerges as scientist explains what they’re ‘testing’
Researchers who claim to have ‘100% confirmed’ the 4,300-year-old vessel’s resting place at Turkey’s Durupınar have explained exactly what they plan to test to prove their theory
The team have shed light on their plans (Image: NoahsArkScans.com / SWNS)
Researchers investigating a site they believe to house the remains of Noah’s Ark have shed new light on how they plan to find proof.
The team at Noah’s Ark Scans have already made headlines by claiming that a site near Turkey’s Mount Ararat could be the resting place of the 4,300-year-old vessel, suggesting that a huge protrusion in the landscape was formed by the remnants of the ark.
The research team already claim to have used high-tech radar devices to scan the site, and say they found structural layers, straight lines, right-angle intersections and large cavity-like spaces at multiple depths which suggest something man made had once laid there.
The researchers are convinced they have found the ark(Image: NoahsArkScans.com / SWNS)
And now, in a post on Instagram, Noah’s Ark Scans have revealed the next step in their plan to prove their theory.
The plans revolve around examining the material that has formed over what they believe to be the ark, as they reckon this could give vital clues into when and how the protrusion was formed.
The post read: “The working theory is that this material may represent layers that covered the formation over time, but that’s exactly what the laboratory testing is for.
They are planning a series of tests on the material above the ark (Image: NoahsArkScans.com / SWNS)
“The samples will be analysed for organic material and other indicators that could help us better understand the history of the site.”
Andrew Jones, the founder of Noah’s Ark Scans, has investigated the area for nearly 30 years and claims that his research has shown that the outline appears to be formed of limestone or solid bedrock.
The expert claims to have done tests to “destroy the theory the site is a solid limestone block shaped into a boat by glaciers and weathering after coming down the mountainside, and it also refutes the theory that this is bedrock around which mud flowed to form the shape. I firmly believe the Durupınar Formation represents the buried remains of Noah’s Ark.”
The team say they have already done a series of tests (Image: NoahsArkScans.com / SWNS)
While Jones is confident in his claims, many in the world of archaeology have dismissed the work of Noah’s Ark Scans as not being “legitimate” archaeology.
Speaking to National Geographic about the project, Professor Jodi Magness, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina and expert of Noah’s Ark said: “Archaeology is not treasure hunting. It’s not about finding a specific object. No legitimate archaeologist does this”.
Historians are not certain that Noah’s Ark ever existed, but according to the Bible, the boat was used to save humanity and every kind of animal from annihilation during a catastrophic flood that some biblical chronologies place more than 4,300 years ago.
