legendary Noah's Ark has recently re-appeared in the center of world attention.Turkish and Chinese scientists last month made a resounding statement that found on Mount Ararat true biblical fragments of the ship and can bring irrefutable evidence of its existence.
find was discovered at about 4 thousand meters.
Expedition members argue that, according to the examination, they found fragments of about 4800 years, and they are made of cypress.
However, many refer to this statement with a pinch of salt.
This is not the first of Noah's Ark, which was found on Mount Ararat.
April 26, 2004 at a press conference in Washington, DC Dr. Daniel McGivern announced that the study of pictures of Mount Ararat, made space satellite, exactly proved that well-known anomaly on the slopes of the mountain, at an altitude of 4725 meters above sea level, having a length of about183 meters - "work of human hands."Pictures are presented to journalists, it was made in 2003 from the satellite Quick Bird («Quick Bird").
Noah's Ark "found" before.His first pictures, called "Ararat anomaly", "surfaced" in 1995.They published the CIA, saying the pictures were taken in 1949 from an airplane.The next came in 2000 from the satellite "Icon."All of them were not clear and caused a controversy.But stronger than others puzzled by a photograph taken by the Turkish Lieutenant Curtis in 1959.He also captured from the plane remains of a huge ship on the slopes of Mount Ararat.Only the ship lay about 20 kilometers away from the "Ararat anomaly" and 2000 meters below.This has led some scientists to suggest that there were two arks.And in the old days Noah had come with someone else.
strange anomaly
During the Second World War between the US and the USSR regularly make air travel with bases in Tunisia and Armenia.In 1943, two American pilots while flying over Mount Ararat tried from a height of several thousand meters to see something similar to the outline of a large ship.Later, they were flying on the same route, took with them the photographer who took the picture, then got in the US Air Force newspaper "Stars and Stripes".It was the only picture, which many remember, but now is not the original.
In June 1949, the Pentagon conducted a secret operation in Turkey, a few kilometers from the border with Iran and the Soviet Union.US Air Force planes flying over Mount Ararat and photographed a strange object at its slope.This huge object immediately caught the attention of pilots.However, when they tried to approach it in a second time, we found another object adjacent to the first.This "neighbor anomaly", as it was christened military officials, clearly visible in the middle of a frozen glacier.A chance it could be assumed that it is about fragments of the aircraft that crashed on Mount Ararat, but the Turkish government has denied that ever took place in this area air disaster.
In October 1995, Tom Dougherty, a spokesman for the CIA said that "since 1949 in circles CIA circulates a series of photographs related to the anomaly in the mountains of Ararat."
Porcher Taylor-third, the University of Richmond professor, has devoted four years of his life to photos to be discovered in the archives.In the end, the US Defense Intelligence Agency has issued two photos of Taylor received during an aerial survey in 1949.And in fact: in these black and white images could be seen some strange structure that is clearly different from that of the mountains, on the slopes of Mount Ararat.
eternal mooring
Ararat, on top of which should supposedly be Noah's Ark, for almost two thousand years it appears in the Christian doctrine, and in the Jewish faith - and even more.Earlier it was mentioned in the religious traditions of the kingdom of Babylon and the Sumerian state in which instead of November gives the name of Utnapishtim.The Islamic legends and immortalized Noah (Arabic nuh) and his huge ark-ship, but again without at least an approximate indication of the place of his stay in the mountains, which is called Al-Jude - tops underneath them meant and Ararat, andTwo other mountains in the Middle East.The Bible presents us with approximate information on the location of the Ark: "... the ark stopped on Ararat mountain."
Travelers centuries perpetrators of trips on horseback, mule or camel caravans to central Asia or back, repeatedly passing near Mount Ararat, and then told that they had seen the ark of the nearby mountain top, or mysteriously hinted at his intentions to find this ship, the ark.They even claimed that from the wreckage of the Ark were made amulets to protect against illnesses, misfortunes, poisons and unrequited love.
Beross, the Babylonian historian, in 275 BCHe writes: "... a ship that sank in Armenia on the ground" and, moreover, mentions: "... resin scraped from the ship and were made of her charms."Exactly the same information is given by the Jewish historian Josephus, who wrote his works in the first century after the conquest of Judea by the Romans.It is a detailed story of Noah and the Flood, and, in particular, wrote: "One of the ship can be found even today in Armenia.... There are people type resin for the manufacture of amulets ... »
same Josephus in his" History of the Jewish War, "makes an interesting observation:" The Armenians call this place the "dock", where the ark went down forever, and the show survived to the present day part".
Nicholas of Damascus, who wrote in I century.after the birth of Christ "World Chronicle", a mountain called Baris: "... In Armenia there is a high mountain called Baris, where many of the fugitives found salvation from the Flood.There, at the top of this mountain, one man stopped, sailed in the ark, fragments of which have survived for a long time. "Baris was another name for Mount Ararat, which is also called the Armenian Masis.
One of the most famous travelers of the past of Marco Polo in the last third of the XV century was passing near Mount Ararat on the way to the court of the Emperor of China.In his book "Travels Venetian Marco Polo" there is overwhelming message of the ark: "... You have to know that in this country of Armenia, on top of a high mountain rests Noah's Ark, covered with eternal snow, and no one can go there, at the top, climb,especially because the snow never melts, and the new snow complement the thickness of the snow cover.However, the lower layers it melts and forms streams and rivers draining into the valley, thoroughly moisten the surrounding area, which grows a thick ground cover, which attracts every summer all around large herds of grazing animals large and small. "
This description Marco Polo Mount Ararat to this day remains valid, except for the statement that no one on the mountain can not be taken away.The most interesting of his observation is that snow and ice melts from the soil and the water flows from the glacier ice.It is particularly important to note that modern researchers have found in the crevasses processed by human hands wooden beams and posts.German traveler Adam Oleary at the beginning of the XVI century went near Mount Ararat, and in his book "Travel to Muscovy and Persia," wrote: "Armenians and Persians believed that the said mountain are still fragments of the ark, which over time have become solid and strong asstone. "
Opening Roskovitsky
In 1939, the American magazine "New Eden", an interview with a former pilot of the tsarist army lieutenant Roskovitsky who allegedly found the Ark in 1916 during a reconnaissance mission."We were flying so low as possible and repeatedly flew over the place.We were very puzzled by the unusual size of the object, on closer inspection it seemed so long as a quarter of the houses along the street, and it's easy to compare the battleship.He was "approached" to the lake shore and half are under water.One side of it from his nose was disassembled, and on the other side there is a large gate area of about six square meters and with only one flap.We were very surprised by the large area of the gate, because for the ship is very unusual. "
Nicholas II, who received the report about the opening, according to Roskovitsky, an expedition - 150 people.For two weeks they reached the ark.According Roskovitsky, the ship was like a giant barge on the wagon at the same time.Inside was a lot of space - big and small.These rooms were separated by partitions of strong poles with a diameter about half that suggested the large size animals, the opportunity to be there, ten times larger than elephants.Other rooms contain a large number of cells, some of that today use at exhibitions of birds, only the front side of them was not a wire mesh and thin iron bars.
However, the mere existence of Roskovitsky - the big question;none of the known survivors from the royal Air Force who served at that time in areas near Mount Ararat, does not remember Lieutenant Roskovitsky.This may indicate that such a person was or was not, or that he at the time of this writing, twenty-two years after the opening of the ark, for reasons of their own safety, even in America did not want to indicate your real name.
This story could with a clear conscience "bury" as another "duck", if not ... other posts on the same topic.The fact that there are quite a number of reports of some of the soldiers and officers of the tsarist army, participated in military operations in the area at the time of Ararat.Eryl Cummings, a prominent researcher intensively about forty years the legend of Noah's Ark, and twenty times rising on Ararat, had a private meeting in New York with Colonel Alexander FOMC, which in 1945 in "Russia", one of the emigre Russian newspaperspublished a very interesting article.Colonel FOMC in 1915 and 1916 m respectively, was sent to the 19th Regiment of Peter and Paul, then stationed near Ararat Ararat to protect the pass after the Turkish army broke the Russian part of the border line.He remembered then that he had heard about the probable opening of the ark, and told Cummings essential information.
Colonel coordinate assumes that the pilot who discovered the ark was a senior lieutenant Z and that article has not been named head of the reference name of the air base Kurbatov.In 1921, he spoke with Lieutenant Peter Lesminym and learned that he had heard about the discovery as "the actual facts and not causing rumors" and that the "Noah's Ark is located in the saddle between the two peaks of Mount Ararat."FOMC also confirmed the information about the subsequent ascent to the Ararat pioneer battalion, which he received from his friend Ruyanskogo in 1916-1917 he served as a sergeant-major railway battalion stationed near the railway station Dogubeyazin a few kilometers from Ararat.This Ruyansky took part in the expedition and confirmed that Battalion really rose to the top of Mount Ararat.
Post FOMC compared with Article Roskovitsky was much better, and told that the expedition was a search for previously laid trail.And in the end it reached the point where one could well consider a huge ship lying partially submerged in the downstream mining site.Another group of people detachment came back earlier, the trail is not used, and to cut down on the ice for the ascent stage.The soldiers of this group were baptized, both devoutly kneeling, prayed fervently, when they saw the ark, and knew what it was.The report FOMC also mentioned that the interior of the ship was divided into sections, and on the wooden floor were clear signs of rust, apparently from iron rods, supports multiple cells in different compartments.Huge cargo wagon
late spring or summer of 1960, American pilots 428 Squadron tactical aircraft stationed near Adana in Turkey and is under the auspices of NATO, have noticed some korablepodobnoe structure on the western spur of Mount Ararat.Turkish liaison officers told them about the ark, and they overflew Ararat to select the best position for photographing the object detected, they gave the Russian air reconnaissance.On this flight, the American captain Shvinghammer wrote in 1981: "A huge cargo wagon or rectangular boat on the mountain was clearly visible."And he claimed that the object was moving slowly down the slope and had to below stuck among mountain ledges and boulders.
In 1974, the American organization "Earth Research Technical Satellite" (ERTS) was made photographing from a height of 4600 meters Ararat mountain spurs.The photographs obtained with multiple increase was clearly presented this unusual object, which lies in one of the clefts of the mountains, "it is very similar in shape and size on the ark."In addition, this same area has been photographed from a height of 7,500 and 8,000 meters, and the resulting images of glacial formations quite consistent with what he saw before pilots who spoke of sightings of the ark or other unusual object.However, any object, fixed at such a height, even at high magnification can not be quite confident to identify the ark, especially if it is more than half-hidden under the snow or in the shadow of the rocky ledges.
But at the same time there are many other pictures of the ark, which is about thirty kilometers from Ararat on a small mountain range.This ark was opened in 1959 in the mountains Akiaila surprisingly very similar to the one described in the Bible and can be, in contrast to the Ararat Ark relatively easy to detect and photograph.The discovery occurred during a routine flight trial aircraft of the Turkish Air Force.Pictures taken with the pilot Curtis height of about 3,000 meters, were sent to the headquarters of the Air Force for a thorough examination.
One photo has caused particular concern.She was captured land heavily cracked soil plains with an elongated, oval-shaped gentle hills, dug in around an earthen rampart.The picture was taken about thirty kilometers south of Ararat!When looked at the picture more closely, they found that an oval hill is very similar to the ship.The towering sides of the hill resembled the contours of the upper deck of the ship, and his nose was pointed directly at the top of the mountain Tendurek.And, thinking about the size of the rare nature of the formation, the researchers finally remembered about God's instructions to Noah: "Three hundred cubits shall be the length, the width fifty cubits, and the height thirty cubits."
hill measurements conducted by Turkish engineers in two days, showed that the "Ark" can be a length of about one hundred and sixty five meters in width (in the middle) and fifty meters and a height of fifteen meters.These dimensions are fairly good agreement with the Bible, especially when you consider that side wall of the ark for several centuries could go off to the side, while the powerful wooden beams body maintains its position.
... cold summer 1953 American oilman George Jefferson Green, flying in a helicopter over Ararat, a height of 30 meters made six pictures of a large ship, half of the past in the rocks and slipped from a mountain ledge ice.Greene later failed an expedition to the site, and when 9 years later he died, disappeared, all originals of his shots ... In 1955, the Frenchman Fernand Navarra manages to find among ice ancient ship: from under the ice, he drew an L-shaped bar and a few boardssheathing.After 14 years, he repeated his attempt with the help of the American organization "The Search" and brought a few boards.In the US, radiocarbon method showed the age of the tree 1400 years, Bordeaux and Madrid, the result was different - 5000 years!He was followed by John Libi sent from San Francisco, had recently seen the exact location of the Ark in a dream ... and finds nothing.Septuagenarian "Poor Libi", as the journalists dubbed it, made within three years of unsuccessful seven climbs.But the champion of "kovchegomanov" on the right still remains Eryl Cummings, who since 1961 has made 31 climbing!One of the latest committed his five ascents Tom Krotser.Returning with his trophy-board, he said to the press: "Yes, there is the tree of 70 thousand tons!" The history of all expeditions (officially at least) is cut off in 1974.
