March
09
/ 2025
Members of the Mount Ararat and Noah’s Ark Research Team announced what they believe is a significant discovery at a site that was first named as a possible final resting place for Noah’s Ark decades ago, a find that suggests this mountainous area of modern-day Turkey did in fact experience a catastrophic flood several thousand years ago. The researchers collected approximately 30 rock and soil samples from the vicinity of the Durupinar formation, a 538-foot (164-meter) geological structure with an ark-like shape that can be found approximately 19 miles (30 kilometers) south of the summit of Mount Ararat, near the Turkey-Iran border in the Doğubayazıt district of Ağrı. The samples were sent to Istanbul Technical University for analysis, and the
