Posted on 11/22/2022 2:38:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
Noah’s Ark is among the best known and most captivating of all Old Testament stories: After creating humans, God became so displeased with them that he struck Earth with an all-encompassing flood to wipe them out—with one noteworthy (and seaworthy) exception: the biblical patriarch and his family, accompanied by pairs of each of the planet’s animals, who rode out the deluge in an enormous wooden vessel.
For people who accept the religious text as a historically accurate account of actual events, the hunt for archaeological evidence of the Ark is equally captivating, inspiring some intrepid faithful to comb the slopes of Armenia’s Mt. Ararat and beyond for traces of the wooden vessel.
In 1876, for example, British attorney and politician James Bryce climbed Mount Ararat, where Biblical accounts say the Ark came to rest, and claimed a piece of wood that “suits all the requirements of the case” was in fact a piece of the vessel. More modern Ark “discoveries” take place on a regular basis, from an optometrist’s report he’d seen it in a rock formation above the mountain in the 1940s to a claim Evangelical pastors had found petrified wood on the peak in the early 2000s.
But searches for the Ark draw everything from exasperation to disdain from academic archaeologists and biblical scholars. “No legitimate archaeologist does this,” says National Geographic Explorer Jodi Magness, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, of modern searches for evidence of Noah.
“Archaeology is not treasure hunting,” she adds. “It’s not about finding a specific object. It’s a science where we come up with research questions that we hope to answer by excavation.”
Flood or fiction?
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How did Noah cut the wood? Mitre saw? Measure twice cut once.
Did you see “The Dig”? I think archaeologists are probably just about the way they are portrayed in that movie.
Exactly... until then everyone thought it was a fable or legend.
I guess I have to go look again but nothing I remember from Genesis says that Noah’s Ark is a boat. The Ark of the covenant that Moses had was not a boat. Maybe something got lost in translation? There is no way that Noah had wood working tools sufficient or capable of building a seaworthy boat hull over 400 ft long. I tend to believe this Ark was a sturdy storage facility on high ground. And the notion that there are two dead giraffes somewhere near My Ararat is a bit of a stretch. A lot of stuff got left out of that story.
“Meh, no legitimate archaelogists went searching for Troy either, until Schliemann did, and he found it.”
—————The Facts—————
Anyone who has studied archaeology has heard of Heinrich Schliemann. He is popularly acclaimed as the bold, talented, German-American amateur archaeologist who discovered the lost city of Troy at Hisarlık in what is now northwest Turkey. In truth, this image is largely a fabrication of Schliemann’s own making. The real Heinrich Schliemann was a lying, cheating, grifting, thieving charlatan and overall scumbag who only became famous because he was extremely rich and highly skilled in the art of lying to make himself seem more impressive than he really was.
Even though Schliemann is popularly credited as the “discoverer” of Troy, he was not the first person to identify Hisarlık as Troy. He was not even the first person to excavate there. Furthermore, his attempts to excavate the ruins of Troy were so hopelessly incompetent that he ended up actually destroying most of the ancient site.
https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/09/24/heinrich-schliemann-debunked/
We agree to agree to be in agreement.
At one time what we now know to be the Mediterranean Sea was just a wee pond. Around it existed thousands of villages. Then one day the Strait of Gibraltar opened up and flooded the basin and drowned all the wee village villagers almost overnight. I don’t know if it also rained a lot. But it became a sea. Maybe a local zookeeper had a big boat.
And “X” never, ever, marks the spot
A global zoo in an ancient desert...seems likely.
It’s cool that the carnivores behaved themselves...
Nah, I haven’t seen that one. But there is quite a bit of politicking and groupthink going on in archaeology from what I can tell as an outsider.
Part of that probably comes from the old traditions of the “Royal Society” being gatekeepers and enforcing orthodoxy, and in more modern times, it is the archaeologists who can get permission from state authorities for excavations who form the “in group” and get to set the narrative.
As the population began to rebound, they needed building lumber. The ark was a wonderful source of premium milled lumber, and because the ark rested on the mountainside the boards could be dragged downhill easily.
It lasted only a couple of centuries before it was completely scavenged. There remains now nothing left to be found.
They became pescatarians. I think it was Lent.
“Meh, no legitimate archaelogists went searching for Troy either, until Schliemann did, and he found it.”
Prior to him, most scholars thought Troy was mythical.
Actually it was God who spared humanity for destruction by using Noah. Building the ark wasn’t Noah’s idea....it was from God.
Not only how but where did he get the wood? Cedars of Lebanon? There ain’t and never has been, much for forest in Asia Minor, never mind Mt. Ararat. He would have needed more than two donkeys to haul it up the hill?
I guess that works, though the timeline is a wee iffy...
Some might say it’s udderly[sic] ridiculous.
There are a lot of people on this thread that are going to be really REALLY surprised someday to find out that every word in the Bible is not fable, stories, but FACTS from our Creator God.....
“Why Noah’s Ark Will Never Be Found”
because Gopherwood isn’t very rot resistant?
You need to re-read the account in Genesis. It was indeed a worldwide flood. Every ancient society has an account of a great flood.
It's also a little known fact that Noah's wife was named Joan. Joan of Ark.
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