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Genesis:
Where is Noah's Ark?
The Bible says that the ark landed on the mountains (plural) of Ararat. There is an unusual rock formation that looks like a boat and has similar dimensions as described in the Bible (using the Egyptian cubit). It is located in Eastern Turkey near the village of Uzengili near the Dogubeyazit district in the Ararat mountain range. It is called the Durupinar site. The Turkish government has built a visitors center and named the area Noah's Ark National Park (Wyatt, 1989). I think the story of Noah's ark became the explanation for this unusual rock formation in ancient times.
There is another famous picture of what looks like an ark on Mt. Ararat, but this also turned out to be just a rock formation. In ancient times the landing site of the ark was mount El Judi, and not Mt. Ararat.
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