These are additions to my Post
"The Arc was built by an amateur, the Titanic by professionals, evidence of Arc"
The information that I presented in the first Post was collected from a scientific study made into a documentary.
The follwing additions I found while viewing another documentary.
Some information is not in the former Post and information that is repeated has more details.
As in the previous Post that started this thread, I am quoting the documentary, word for word.
I want to add that I saw how many views this Post has had and I am glad that at least there is an interest in this Post.
Scientists have now confirmed that at this time, the time of Noah's Arc {when it is said to have occurred}, there was a tremendous cataclism that inundated Noah's world.
Flood deposits have been found by archealogists in Iraq that range from five to twelve feet thick, entire civilizations buried under mud and debris.
In 1931, the University of Pennsylvannia uncovered flood deposits in Iraq. They found conclusive proof that the entire city was destroyed by a giant flood.
An interesting side note that
There is a river by Mount Ararat that was named "River of the Arc" and a town nearby that was named "Koran" which translated is "Village of Noah". In armenia there was never a time when it was not known that the arc was on Mount Ararat.
An account of the flood of Noah that wasn't mentioned in the first Post was found by the British expedition in Iraq on a tablet. This account was written about 4000 years ago. It tells the story of the flood as told to King Gilgamesh. This king went to visit one of the survivor's of the flood, {his ancestor, as the world was repopulated through Noah's sons}, Noah, who was still alive at that time and who was living at the foot of the great mountain.
In 1872, another tablet was found by the British Museum, in the library of King Ashbanapel in Nineveh, Iraq. It tells a similar story of the flood.
Both these accounts tell the ship landed on top of a MOUNTAIN.
An accounting in 150 A.D
This is between the 30 B.C account of Nicholas of Damascus and the 1269 A.D account of Marco Polo mentioned in my first Post.
Flabeus Josephus, the Jewish historian, recorded that the Arc was still visible on Mount Ararat. He was told of those who had seen the vessel.
Near the year, 1000 A.D
a monk named Jacob came down from the mountain with timber from the Arc, afetr a life long quest.
As mentioned in my first Post, Marco Polo wrote of Noah's Arc on Mount Ararat in 1269 A.D. He wrote in his journal of the giant vessel being standed and difficult to get to.
Both documentaries mention the 1840 account
There was an earthquake. After the earthquake, Turkish authorities sent teams of workers up the mountain to build protective barriers against the avalanches. One team discovered part of an old ship in the northwest side of the mountain, sticking out of a glacier. They saw three large rooms and several stalls and cages.
In 1883,
This account is between the 1840 account of the Turkish teams and the 1902 account of an Armenian boy and his uncle, who pulled a piece oof the Arc that I mentioned in the first Post.
The Turkish government appointed a commission to investigate avalanches. They had been told that the Arc had been seen continually for the previous six years by the inhabitants on the mountain. They climbed the gorge and were led to the location of the Arc by the Kurdish guides. The Turkish crew discovered Noah's Arc sitting at the foot of a giant glacier. It's bow sticking out of the ice. They were able to explore many of the rooms. They reported stalls for animals and iron bars on some cages.
In 1892,
Prince of Nui, John Joseph and Arch Bishop of the Persia Nastorean church announced to the world parliament of religeons in Chicago that he led an expedition to Noah's Arc on Mount Ararat. He told of finding the Arc wedged between two outcroppings of rocks at the foot of the glacier. He measured it and found the ship's length is 500 feet. Half filled with snow and ice. He was able to explore over 300 rooms in the ship. Many with iron bars and cages.
Speaking of the measurement of 500 feet long,
it was measured to be 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. It's capacity would hold up to 522 railway freight cars. Modern ships are constructed in the design ratio of maritime designs.
Both documentaries mention that in the summer of 1916, Russian pilots flew over the mountain on a routine test flight. They saw the ship near a glacial pond sticking out of the glacier. One took the first photo ever of Noah's Arc. The photo and report were sent to the Tzar, Tzar Nicholas II.
He authorized the first scientific expedition. The Tzar ordered two companies of soldiers, a 150 soldiers and scientists, photographers and equipment to do measurements and photos, to research the Arc. They reached the Arc in the Winter of 1917. They found the ship sticking out of the glacier at the 14,000 elevation. It's bow and stern were sticking out over the ice. They photographed it and took samples of the timber for analysis, measured it, studied it and sent a courier {messenger} back to the Tzar with the report. There were hundreds of rooms, some had fences or cages. The pilot of the expedition immigrated to America and wrote of his discovery in the 1920's. It made the newspapers at that time.
In 1952,
the French industrialist and mountain climber, Fernan Nirvana, led an French expedition to Mount Ararat to find the Arc.
In the summer of 1974, at his home in Bourdeaux, France, he told producer, Bart LeRue of his nine expeditions to the mountain. The first time he went to the mountain was in 1952. To get permission to go up the mountain in the restricted military zone, the Turkish government insisted that he take along 100 of their troops and train them in mountain climbing. He eventually arrived at the location of the Arc of Noah. and brought some of the wood down with him. It was hand tooled timber. It was a type of Oak.
I think I should add here that there aren't any trees on Mount Ararat but there are pieces of wood in the shape of a ship. That people have brought from the Mount Ararat.
In 1969,
the Search Foundation left Istanbul Turkey to explore Mount Ararat. Hugo Newburger of the Artic Institute of North America accompanied Fernan Nivara and his son with a ton of scientific equipment and supplies as Fernan Nivara retraced his steps where he found wood in 1955. These experienced explorers composed the most qualified expedition to explore the mountain since the Russian expedition in 1916. They met with the kurdish porters in Ortelu, who would take them up the mountain. The U.S government had furnished materials and supplies. The team reached the site where Nivara had found timber 14 years before. They explored and probed the ice pack. They eventually found more timber. It was documentated bt a movie camera.
One theory of the cause of the flood is that at the time of Noah, a canopy of vapor surrounded the earth up until the time of the flood. The earth was like a hot house with an even temperature and lush plant life. All the water at that time came out of the ground from springs or condensed {overnight} dew. The canopy of vapor broke apart somehow {act of God} during the cataclism.