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Mount Ararat is a polygenic, compound stratovolcano. Covering an area of 1,100 km 2 (420 sq mi), it is the largest volcanic edifice within the region. Along its northwest–southeast trending long axis, Mount Ararat is about 45 kilometers (28 mi) long and is about 30 kilometers (19 mi) long along its short axis.
Depiction of Noah's ark landing on the "mountains of Ararat", from the North French Hebrew Miscellany (13th century). In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat (Biblical Hebrew הָרֵי אֲרָרָט , Tiberian hārê ’Ǎrārāṭ, Septuagint: τὰ ὄρη τὰ Ἀραράτ) [1] is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood. [2]
The Durupınar site (Turkish: Durupınar sitesi) is a geological formation of 164 metres (538 feet) made of limonite on Mount Tendürek, [1][2] adjacent to the village of Üzengili in eastern Anatolia or Turkey. The site is 3 km (1.9 miles) north of the Iranian border, 16 km (9.9 miles) southeast of Doğubayazıt in the Ağrı Province, and 29 ...
A mountain in Turkey shows evidence of human activity in the area around the time the Biblical flood is ... Dating of the rock and soil from the location match with Biblical timing of Noah’s Ark.
A mountain in Turkey shows evidence of human activity in the area around the time the Biblical flood ... Noah’s Ark is said to have come to rest on the mountains of Ararat following a 150-day ...
Mount Judi (Turkish: Cudi Dağı; Arabic: ٱلْجُودِيّ, romanized: Al-Jūdiyy; [1] Armenian: Արարադ; Kurdish: Çiyayê Cûdîyê) is a mountain in Turkey.It was considered in antiquity to be Noah's apobaterion or "Place of Descent", the location where the Ark came to rest after the Great Flood, according to very early Christian and Islamic traditions (the latter based on the ...
Searches for Noah's Ark. A reliquary displaying a piece of wood at the museum of Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Armenia, said to be from Noah's Ark. By tradition Jacob of Nisibis received the wood from an angel during his search for the Ark. Searches for Noah's Ark have been reported since antiquity, as ancient scholars sought to affirm the ...
The monastery is said to have contained relics of wood from the Biblical Ark of Noah. A strong earthquake occurred on Mount Ararat on July 2, 1840, triggering an avalanche that destroyed the monastery of St. Hakob, Arakelots Vank in the neighboring village of Akori as well as the village itself.