Where is Noah's Ark?

 

Has anybody ever really found the famous ark which carried Noah and his family as well as a selection of animals and other creatures safely through The Flood which wiped out the rest of land creatures that inhabited our planet until 2370 BCE?

 
Over the centuries since then there have been occasional reports of persons having seen it –usually entombed in icy somewhere high up on the side of Mount Arrarat. Such as the adventurers who related to the historian Josephus how they had come across the vessel locked into the ice high up in the mountain. In addition to that some other searchers have produced aerial photos that seemed to show the outline of an Ark shaped vessel in the ice at a high altitude on the side of the mountain and still others have come back with pieces of wood they insisted came from the Ark. And one Armenian explorer, George Hagopian claimed that he had actually climbed over the Ark in the early 1900's.

 
He died, however back in 1972, however, without ever taking anybody back to the Ark and the search continues periodically down to this day, but such a search might all be in vain. If the Ark had really landed somewhere near the top of the mountain then it is possible that is still lies encased in ice somewhere near the peak waiting to be discovered – but did it really land in that area?

 
The Biblical account of the flood seems to rule this out, putting in doubt claims that explorers had actually seen, photographed, and even climbed on the deck on the Ark centuries later.The Bible says that the Ark touched ground in the Mountains of Ararat – not necessarily at or near the top. And it is not likely that God would have navigated to such an area. If he had how would Noah's family and many of the animals been able to disembark. Mount Arrarat is not a rounded mountain but has a very rock, rugged peak. It is far more likely that the Ark's grounding point was actually well below freezing temperatures and the ice field which could have preserved it and disintegrated thousands of years before the time of Josephus and the explorers he quotes.
So, while you are likely to continue reading of the occasional effort to find the Ark or yet another claim that some explorers photographed or climbed over the remains of the Ark you should be more than a little sceptical. The Ark definitely did exist – not as the cute, double-bowed vessel pictured by many artists, but as a huge rectangular box-like vessel. But it is not likely that we are ever going to find it.