At that time, there was only one person, Noah, who was kind and upright and especially loved by God, so God told him, "There are too many evils in this land, and I am determined to destroy all people." But only you have a kind heart, so I decided to help you and your wife, your children and their wives. I will drown the earth and destroy the world. You must build a big ship out of wood. When finished, you should divide your family and all the animals into seven pairs and put them on the ark. When everything is ready, I will let it rain for forty days and nights, destroying all living things on the ground. "
Noah built the ark out of wood according to God's command. The ark is 360m long, 23m wide and13.6m high. It is divided into three layers, up to 15000 tons. The ark was completely completed, and Noah's family and all the animals were divided into seven groups, one male and one female, and moved into the ark.
Soon, dark clouds were gathering, lightning and thunder broke out, and the disaster began. The source of the deep spring cracked and the window in the sky opened. It rained for forty days and nights, and God ended his terrible punishment. Sin disappeared and life was destroyed. The land is vast, but the ark keeps drifting in the flood.
According to the Bible, after 150 days, the water gradually receded and Noah's Ark stopped at the top of Mount Ararat (now eastern Turkey). After another 40 days, Noah released the pigeon, and the pigeon brought back an olive leaf, indicating that the flood had subsided. So Noah walked out of the ark with all the creatures, returned to the ground and rebuilt his home. God warned, "You should reproduce, and don't do evil. Who shed blood, his blood will be shed by others ... "
The story of Noah's great flood is a legend about 6000 years ago. It is not only clearly recorded in the Old Testament, but also recorded similar flood stories on the clay tablets unearthed in Nineveh Library, the ancient capital of Assyria, which is called the oldest library in the world. Today, more than/kloc-0.5 billion people-Christians, Jews and Muslims-know the story of Noah's Ark. No one but Christians will believe this bizarre myth!
The story should have ended here, but ...
19 16, when Russian pilot Latmy flew over Alarat Mountain, he found a blue substance on the top of the mountain. Curiosity prompted him to fly back to find out. He was surprised to see a ship as big as a house with doors on one side, one of which was destroyed. This adventure was quickly reported to Tsar Nicholas II. At that time, he ordered an expedition, but due to the outbreak of the October Revolution, the plan fell through.
In fact, Lamy was not the first person to discover Noah's Ark. As early as the17th century, the Dutchman Toyes wrote a book "I Found Noah's Ark" with illustrations of the ark. In 1800, Americans Huvis and Sun Yu, in 1892, the acting bishop of Jerusalem and the local Turkish shepherd all said that they had seen the Ark.
Mount Ararat is located at the eastern end of Turkey, near the Iranian border. It is an extinct volcano with an altitude of 5065 meters. The top of the mountain has been covered by glaciers since ancient times. Legend has it that there is Noah's ark on the top of the mountain. However, the Armenians who live here regard this mountain as a sacred mountain and believe that those who climb to the top will be punished by God. No one has climbed for a long time. But this mystery was finally proved.
1792, an Estonian mountaineer named Flier Ritchie Parod successfully climbed to the top of Ararat for the first time. Then in 1850, the Turkish survey team led by Colonel Gelchiko also reached its peak. 1876, James Burrarrais, a British aristocrat, found sawdust in a rock area about 4500m high on the holy mountain, and announced the news that he had found the remains of the ark.
After World War II, a Turkish pilot took pictures of the ark. Since then, the "Ark" is no longer a verbal rumor, but a physical object with photos. What's even more surprising is that after the photo is enlarged, the hull is 150 meters long and 50 meters wide, which is similar to the legendary ark.
1949, Dr. Aaron Smith of the United States organized an expedition to explore Noah's Ark in Mount Ararat, but failed to achieve the goal. 1952, French polar explorer Jean Dolique organized an expedition and successfully climbed to the top of Ararat. However, nothing about Noah's ark was found.
However, at that time, a player named Joan Fernand Navarra thought, "There must be Noah's Ark somewhere in Ararat Mountain, and I want to prove it with these eyes." He made up his mind to make a detailed study of the places where he thought there were traces of Noah's ark during his second expedition in 1953. 1In July, 955, he took his son Raphael, who was1/kloc-0, and tried to climb the summit of Mount Ararat for the third time.
It was their unswerving desire that finally found the fragments of Noah's ark. They dug out a part of the glacier and brought back a board. This ancient board was later sent to universities and research institutes in Spain, France, Egypt and other countries for scientific research. The results show that this is a wooden board treated with special anticorrosive paint. According to carbon 14, it has a history of at least 4484 years, which is the age when the legendary "Ark" was built. People were shocked. There were pictures and objects. Fernand firmly believed that he had found Noah's Ark. Later, based on these discoveries, he wrote a book entitled "I Found Noah's Ark", which was published in 1956. He also gave lectures all over the world, which aroused strong repercussions.
However, some people question that even if there is a catastrophic flood, the water level of the earth will not rise to the height of 5000 meters. Why is the Ark on the top of Ararat? Is it crustal change? Americans C.J. Kazuo and S.D. Scottus think:
Even if there was a flood in Noah's time 5000 years ago and it was ravaged by miles of water, what would the surface of the earth look like today? Even the highest mountain will have traces of erosion by running water. But this is not the case. In addition, the frozen areas before 12000 should always show signs of being changed by water, but they are still the same. No matter how high the altitude is, those exposed glacier faults remain in their original state.
From a scientific point of view, it is unconvincing that someone has seen Noah's Ark in history. If the ark was finally put on hold near the top of Ararat Mountain 5000 years ago, it should have been moved to a lower plateau by glacier movement. The ark has at least been fragmented to some extent, and the wood has been scattered on the lower slopes of Mount Ararat. As far as we know, no one has ever found such a large amount of wood, let alone the wreckage of the ark.
③ The photos of "Ark" provided by people are obviously vague, and it needs rich imagination to recognize this rectangular Ark from many similar natural contours dotted on the mountain peak and its nearby hillside. Speaking of the "Ark" wood discovered by Navarra, some age values obtained from three different laboratories show that its age is between 1250 and 1700, which is too close to the "Ark Theory".
You can imagine that there was a big flood in Mesopotamia 5000 years ago, and the Noah family foresaw the signs of flooding in the local rivers. So they built a boat, stored enough materials, and left room for the livestock out of natural impulse. The flood caused great loss of life and property. A few days later, the ship ran aground on some highland or hill. Over time, the legend of this great event was handed down as a well-known story of Noah's Ark.
The views of Kazuo and scottu are scientific.
The most shocking news is in recent years. David, an American scholar, found a big ship on the top of Musa Mountain near the village of Wujingili, south of Mount Ararat. This village is located in the same place as Nisai Village mentioned in the history books. The bow is onion-shaped, and the hull length is164m, which is basically consistent with the Noah's Ark recorded in the Bible.
1September 1989 15, two Americans found Noah's Ark and took photos while flying over the southern foothills of Ararat by helicopter. Chuck Allen, the driver, said that an ark-shaped object was found at an altitude of 4,400 meters in the Ararat Mountains, which was usually covered by glaciers. Due to the high temperature in this area, the glaciers in that area retreated this summer. Allen said, "I 100% am sure this is the ark."
He and his companions plan to climb this area in June 1990, when an expedition team of 20 geologists and archaeologists will be sent.
At present, at least three American teams are searching for this Noah's Ark, focusing on the southwest foot of Mount Ararat. However, Turkish geologists say that it is just a hard rock formed by thousands of years of weathering and erosion. In any case, the curtain has been raised, and the final answer will come one day, when the truth of the Bible story can be explained.