The Great Red Comet

Issue # 38: Volume 4  (revised sequence)

Has Noah's Ark Been Found?

The orchid-colored rectangle is the Takht-e-Soleiman (Soleyman) massif
region of 160 peaks above 4,000 feet in northern Iran.

July 7, 2006  Monument, Colorado -  Long before the time of Jesus Christ, the Bible says God was angry at sinful humanity and planned to flood the planet above all the mountain tops to get rid of everyone. But God took pity on a man named Noah and his family and decided to save them and many animals. The salvation, according to the Bible, was a boat made of “gopher wood.” As the flood waters receded, Noah’s ark came to rest on “Ararat mountains,” plural. In Jeremiah Chapter 51, verse 27, Ararat is called a kingdom that fights with Babylon – not a volcanic mountain in Turkey. In fact, Mt. Ararat, Turkey, was not given that name until around 1200 A.D. That means historically, there was an ancient Ararat kingdom with many mountains in what most likely would have been Mesopotamia, or today’s Iran and Iraq.

Further, the King’s James version of the Bible in Chapter 11, Verse 2, states that Noah’s descendants, “…journied from the east (and) found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.” Three chapters later in Genesis Chapter 14, (Genesis 14:1,9)  Shinar is the land ruled by king Amraphel, who reigned in Babylon. Babylon means “gate of god” and was on the plain of Shinar along the Euphrates River, about 50 miles south of modern day Baghdad, Iraq.

One Noah’s ark researcher named Robert Cornuke had explored Mt. Ararat in Turkey with astronaut James Irwin some years ago. Mr. Cornuke was FBI-trained and worked as a police investigator and SWAT team member in Orange County, California. He read a lot of history and came to the conclusion that Noah’s ark must have stopped on one of the Ararat mountains east of Babylon in Iran. He and others interested in finding the ark and other biblical artifacts, formed the Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration Institute, known as B.A.S.E.

Board-like slabs fossilized on the Soleiman peak? Or simply layered rock outcrop? Image © 2006 by B.A.S.E.

In July 2005 and June 2006, Mr. Cornuke and his team applied to the Iranian government for tourist visas, which were granted. Without publicity, the B.A.S.E. team quietly searched the top of a 15,000-foot-high peak of the Soleiman massif in the Elborz mountain range of northern Iran. There they found a large, dark-colored rock outcrop about 400 feet long that looks quite different than the surrounding mountain rock. On close inspection, the dark rock has a lot of slabs in it that could be interpreted as fossilized wood planks or beams of a boat. Read more about this intriguing claim from National Geographic:

Noah's Ark Discovered in Iran?

High in the mountains of northwestern Iran, a Christian archaeology expedition has discovered a rock formation that its members say resembles the fabled Noah's ark.

The team discovered the prominent boat-shaped rocks at just over 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) on Mount Suleiman in Iran's Elburz mountain range. (See Iran map, photo, country profile.)

Close-up on slabs of rock that might be fossilized wood beams? Image © 2006 by B.A.S.E.

Robert Cornuke’s next goal is to pay for clear, close-up satellite imagery of the dark rock outcropping on the Takht-e-Soleiman massif, in the Elborz mountain range. The fact that the unusual long slabs of rock stick out both sides of the mountain top does not prove it’s a fossilized boat. But at least Mr. Cornuke thinks he is finally looking on the right mountain range east of Baghdad in northern Iran.

More Information:

[ Editor's Note: Wikipedia: "Alborz, also written as Alburz or Elburz, is a mountain range in northern Iran, stretching from the borders of Armenia in the northwest to the southern end of the Caspian Sea, where also Tehran and Iran's highest peak, Damavand (5604 meters), and ending in the east at the borders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan. The Alborz mountain range forms a barrier between the south Caspian and the Qazvin-Tehran plateau. It is only 60-130 km wide and consists of sedimentary series dating from Upper Devonian to Oligocene, prevalently jurassic limestone over a granite core. Alborz enjoys a central role in the historical texts of Iran such as the Shahnama, and also in Persian mythology.

"At the northwest part of the middle Alborz, some jagged, rugged and not parallel ridge lines form a sub-range that contains about 160 distinct peaks higher than 4000 meters, called Takht-e-Soleiman massif. The conclusion of the ridges at the middle of the sub range forms the lands second highest peak and one of the most technical climbing's named Alamkooh (4850 meters). The Takht-e-Soleiman massif holds Iran's largest glacial region and unlike most other mountains of Iran, winter lasts until July at higher parts of this area."

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