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Article: Lore of Noah's Ark popularized hunts: Turkey closed are to searches in 1990.(A)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 18, 1997
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Since before the time of Christ, sightings of Noah's Ark have long captured popular imagination.
Expeditions to Mount Ararat in Turkey took a sharp upturn this century after airplanes began photographing a site where the 4-story-tall ark is reputed to be trapped in ice some 14,000 feet high.
The book of Genesis in the Bible records the story of the worldwide flood said to have landed the battleship-size, 33,750-square-foot boat, containing pairs of all living creatures, atop the isolated mountain.
After a worldwide flood covering even the world's highest peaks, Noah and his crew inhabited the ark for more than a year until the Earth's ...