For centuries explorers have tried to find the Ark, but with no success for the mountains of Ararat are high and the peaks are covered with ice. Despite rumours and local legends, no real evidence emerged — until recently.
In 1948, an aircraft from the Turkish Air Force, taking aerial photographs of recent mud and ice slides on the mountains, took a picture of a strange shape, which had been under the ice for centuries until the heavy rains had caused the ice to slide away. It was a dark blemish in the snow that looked like a huge boat-shaped structure. It was at the top of Mount Ararat itself — an area known by local people for thousands of years as ‘Noah’s Mountain’. It was a place that, mysteriously, outsiders were not permitted to visit.
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