Haider Ali
19-02-07, 10:52 PM
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Article from the London Observer....
The Observer (London)
16 Jan 1994
'Arkologists' claim to have found Noah's Ark
By Martin Wroe
LONDON -- Noah's Ark has been found on the Turkish-Iranian border, 32 kilometres from Mount Ararat, according to the leader of a team of scientists that has been investigating the site for six years.
The Turkish government is so convinced by the findings that, after years of intransigence, it has designated the site one of special archaeological interest and agreed to its excavation next summer.
The remote site contains a buried, ship-like object, resting an altitude of 2,300 metres.
At 170 metres long and 45 metres wide, it conforms almost exactly to the 300 cubit by 50 cubit boat that God told Noah to build, according to Genesis 6 in the Bible.
On surrounding terrain, the American and Middle Eastern scientists have identified huge stones with holes carved at one end, which they believe are "drogue-stones," dragged behind ships in the ancient world to stabilize them. Radar soundings indicate unusual levels of iron-oxide distribution.
Salih Bayraktutan, head of geology at Turkey's Ataturk University, estimates the age of the 'vessel' at more than 100,000 years.
"It is a man-made structure and for sure it is Noah's Ark."
The site is directly below the mountain of Al Judi, named in the Qur'an as the Ark's resting place.
David Fasold, an American shipwreck specialist with no religious affiliation, has led the investigation. He says subsurface radar surveys of the site have produced "very good pictures."
"The radar imagery at about 25 metres down from the stern is so clear that you can count the floorboards between the walls."
He believes the team has found the fossilized remains of the upper deck and that the original reed substructure has disappeared.
But the findings have infuriated the scores of Christian Ark-hunters who travel to Turkey, convinced the Ark will only be found on Mount Ararat.
Fasold, who calls himself an "Arkologist," also argues that it was not a great flood that pushed the Ark into the mountains. He says it was "an astronomical event causing a tectonic upheaval, a tidal bore causing gravitational pull in the ocean waters that forced the boat into the mountains."
Some of Fasold's team of geophysicists and geologists are reserving final judgement until the excavation and carbon-dating.
But in a British TV series on the environment next month, team member Vendyl Jones, a Middle East archeologist and inspiration for film character Indiana Jones, says it is "between maybe and probably" that they have found Noah's Ark.
http://www.arksearch.com/najudi.htm
David Fasold
David Franklin Fasold (February 23, 1939 - April 26, 1998) was a former merchant marine officer and salvage expert who is best known for his book The Ark of Noah, chronicling his early expeditions to the so-called Durupinar Noah's Ark site (Turkish: Durupınar). Fasold was a self-proclaimed "Arkologist"
The Durupinar site is a boat-shaped mound site named after Turkish Army Captain İlhan Durupınar who identified the formation in a Turkish Air Force aerial photo while on a mapping mission for NATO in 1959. It is near a village known as Uzengili (once known as Nasar) and a mount named Maşher Daĝi, it is near a mountain called Cudi (Al Judi), named in the Qur'an as the Ark's resting place. The site is located at approximately 39°27′N 44°12′E two miles north of the Iranian border, ten miles southeast of Doğubeyazıt, in the Ağri province, and eighteen miles south of the Greater Mount Ararat summit, at an elevation of approximately 6,300 feet.
.....In 1985 Wyatt was joined by David Fasold and geophysicist Dr. John Baumgardner for the expedition recounted in Fasold's The Ark of Noah. As soon as Fasold saw the site, he exclaimed that it was a ship wreck. Fasold had brought a state of the art frequency generator, set on the wave length for iron and searched the formation for internal iron loci. This techinique was later compared to dowsing by the site's detractors. Fasold and the team measured the length of the formation as 538 feet, close to the 300 cubits of the Bible if the Egyptian cubit of 20.6 inches is used. Later measurements by others found it to be 515 feet, exactly 300 Egytpian cubits in length. Fasold believed the team had found the fossilized remains of the upper deck and that the original reed substructure has disappeared. In the nearby village of Kazan, so-called drogue stones that they believed were once attached to the ark were investigated.....
.....In early 1998, shortly before his death, Fasold again reaffirmed his belief that the Durupinar site was in fact the location of the ark and worked tirelessly to promote the Durupinar site on the internet.[2] Many observers, including Fasold and his friends, believed that people like Plimer and Collins had used Fasold's doubts to further their own agenda. In April 1998, David Fasold died of cancer in Corvallis, Oregon, financially broken from years of expeditions and research.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fasold
From what i've read, Orthodox Christians who are the most presistent in their search for Noah's Ark are actually against the findings of David Fasold and his theory that Noah's Ark rests on the Durupinar site, because it is inaccurate Biblically.
Are Muslims researchers actually interested in finding Noah's Ark? And what are their thoughts on the findings of David Fasold?
Thoughts/ Anyone have more information on the subject?
http://www.ya-hussain.com/int_col1/int_coll_net/noahsark_files/image003.jpg
http://arcimaging.org/GeisslerRex/Durupinar20003.jpg
Article from the London Observer....
The Observer (London)
16 Jan 1994
'Arkologists' claim to have found Noah's Ark
By Martin Wroe
LONDON -- Noah's Ark has been found on the Turkish-Iranian border, 32 kilometres from Mount Ararat, according to the leader of a team of scientists that has been investigating the site for six years.
The Turkish government is so convinced by the findings that, after years of intransigence, it has designated the site one of special archaeological interest and agreed to its excavation next summer.
The remote site contains a buried, ship-like object, resting an altitude of 2,300 metres.
At 170 metres long and 45 metres wide, it conforms almost exactly to the 300 cubit by 50 cubit boat that God told Noah to build, according to Genesis 6 in the Bible.
On surrounding terrain, the American and Middle Eastern scientists have identified huge stones with holes carved at one end, which they believe are "drogue-stones," dragged behind ships in the ancient world to stabilize them. Radar soundings indicate unusual levels of iron-oxide distribution.
Salih Bayraktutan, head of geology at Turkey's Ataturk University, estimates the age of the 'vessel' at more than 100,000 years.
"It is a man-made structure and for sure it is Noah's Ark."
The site is directly below the mountain of Al Judi, named in the Qur'an as the Ark's resting place.
David Fasold, an American shipwreck specialist with no religious affiliation, has led the investigation. He says subsurface radar surveys of the site have produced "very good pictures."
"The radar imagery at about 25 metres down from the stern is so clear that you can count the floorboards between the walls."
He believes the team has found the fossilized remains of the upper deck and that the original reed substructure has disappeared.
But the findings have infuriated the scores of Christian Ark-hunters who travel to Turkey, convinced the Ark will only be found on Mount Ararat.
Fasold, who calls himself an "Arkologist," also argues that it was not a great flood that pushed the Ark into the mountains. He says it was "an astronomical event causing a tectonic upheaval, a tidal bore causing gravitational pull in the ocean waters that forced the boat into the mountains."
Some of Fasold's team of geophysicists and geologists are reserving final judgement until the excavation and carbon-dating.
But in a British TV series on the environment next month, team member Vendyl Jones, a Middle East archeologist and inspiration for film character Indiana Jones, says it is "between maybe and probably" that they have found Noah's Ark.
http://www.arksearch.com/najudi.htm
David Fasold
David Franklin Fasold (February 23, 1939 - April 26, 1998) was a former merchant marine officer and salvage expert who is best known for his book The Ark of Noah, chronicling his early expeditions to the so-called Durupinar Noah's Ark site (Turkish: Durupınar). Fasold was a self-proclaimed "Arkologist"
The Durupinar site is a boat-shaped mound site named after Turkish Army Captain İlhan Durupınar who identified the formation in a Turkish Air Force aerial photo while on a mapping mission for NATO in 1959. It is near a village known as Uzengili (once known as Nasar) and a mount named Maşher Daĝi, it is near a mountain called Cudi (Al Judi), named in the Qur'an as the Ark's resting place. The site is located at approximately 39°27′N 44°12′E two miles north of the Iranian border, ten miles southeast of Doğubeyazıt, in the Ağri province, and eighteen miles south of the Greater Mount Ararat summit, at an elevation of approximately 6,300 feet.
.....In 1985 Wyatt was joined by David Fasold and geophysicist Dr. John Baumgardner for the expedition recounted in Fasold's The Ark of Noah. As soon as Fasold saw the site, he exclaimed that it was a ship wreck. Fasold had brought a state of the art frequency generator, set on the wave length for iron and searched the formation for internal iron loci. This techinique was later compared to dowsing by the site's detractors. Fasold and the team measured the length of the formation as 538 feet, close to the 300 cubits of the Bible if the Egyptian cubit of 20.6 inches is used. Later measurements by others found it to be 515 feet, exactly 300 Egytpian cubits in length. Fasold believed the team had found the fossilized remains of the upper deck and that the original reed substructure has disappeared. In the nearby village of Kazan, so-called drogue stones that they believed were once attached to the ark were investigated.....
.....In early 1998, shortly before his death, Fasold again reaffirmed his belief that the Durupinar site was in fact the location of the ark and worked tirelessly to promote the Durupinar site on the internet.[2] Many observers, including Fasold and his friends, believed that people like Plimer and Collins had used Fasold's doubts to further their own agenda. In April 1998, David Fasold died of cancer in Corvallis, Oregon, financially broken from years of expeditions and research.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fasold
From what i've read, Orthodox Christians who are the most presistent in their search for Noah's Ark are actually against the findings of David Fasold and his theory that Noah's Ark rests on the Durupinar site, because it is inaccurate Biblically.
Are Muslims researchers actually interested in finding Noah's Ark? And what are their thoughts on the findings of David Fasold?
Thoughts/ Anyone have more information on the subject?