'Noah's Ark's final resting place' confirmed to be a 'man-made object' in groundbreaking announcement

Daily Mail ^ | 30 September 2026 | By ISABELLA MACHIN, REPORTER and IMOGEN GARFINKEL - SENIOR FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER

[Ezekiel]

A team scanning a boat-shaped hill in eastern Turkey has announced that new radar images show a large man-made structure underground, not just natural rock.

On Wednesday, private research group Noah’s Ark Scans released a preliminary report about their work at the Durupınar Formation in Turkey, claiming that the 515-foot boat-shaped mound contained a 'man-made object.'

The scans were conducted by Dr Khosrow Bakhtar, an engineer who spent decades building detection systems for US defense agencies, including the Air Force, Navy and NORAD.

He used a system he invented called BakhtarRadar, originally developed to find buried tunnels and hidden structures, to scan beneath the boat-shaped Durupınar mound and see whether it was solid natural rock or a man-made structure with rooms and corridors inside.

That process has now concluded that the object under the Durupınar mound is not a natural rock formation, but a large organized man-made structure with corridors, chambers and hallways inside.

In a press release sent to the Daily Mail, Dr Bakhtar said: 'Whatever the object is beneath the surface is extraordinary.

'In forty years of this work, I have never seen anything like it. It could be a ship. It could be a spaceship. What I can say from the radar is that it is organized, it is structural, and a solid geological mass would not have returned such a strong signature.'

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[Elsie]

But knowledge is wonderful.

[Philsworld]

You seem to have a very limited supply of that.

[Philsworld]

https://www.noahsarksearch.com/kazan.htm

[Ezekiel]

Where is anyone's sense of adventure?

The Ark was yuge -- it was the world's first cruise ship -- but unlike the location of that other Ark that's buried in a US government warehouse,

Noahbody Noes nothin'!

Outside the... box, however, are some exciting clues that equate the two arks that were lost to history...

The 'ark' word for Noah's Ark is a teiva (Biblical spelling: תבה, modern/full spelling: תיבה).

תֵּבָה ~ תיבה

chest, box, case; Noah's Ark; word (written or printed); bar, measure (music)

The 'ark' word for the Ark of the Covenant is an aron (ארון).

אָרוֹן

cupboard, closet (+ אָרֹן ~ ארון, "I will sing")

Of course, there's the secular attitude that Noah's Ark is a fictional ship, so in the list of longest wooden ships ever built,

"the longest confirmed wooden ship in history is the Wyoming."

Wyoming was an American wooden six-masted schooner built and completed in 1909 by the Percy & Small Shipyard in Bath, Maine.[1] With a length of 450 ft (140 m) from jib-boom tip to spanker boom tip, Wyoming was the largest known wooden ship ever built.[4]

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A sculpture representing the Wyoming at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine, site of the Percy & Small shipyard where the ship was built.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_(schooner)

On Google Maps and also the Street View, it's easy to pinpoint the exact location where the 'bones' of the Wyoming are located. The skeleton sculpture was positioned where she was launched, although due to regulations involving the river, it had to be placed a certain distance from the bank of the river.

As such, the bowsprit is located at the intersection of Marshall and Washington streets.

Who doesn't recall the plot of Disney's fictional tale about Ariel? The dramatic conclusion (spoiler alert) peaked when Eric impaled Ursula the Sea Witch on the bowsprit of the shipwreck that she herself had churned up from the deep in order to destroy the protagonists.

Then it turned out that the famous actress who was the voice of Ursula (Pat Carroll) died in her home in Harwich Port MA, located near the end of Cape Cod, near the place where the Wyoming had been lost in the nor'easter.

A key detail here is that Wyoming -- the "Equality State" -- "just so happens" to be in form of a box:

Thus the longest wooden ship ever built [that the historians will acknowledge as real], is named after the "teiva", because that's how Abraham's God rolls. Accept no substitutes.

Furthermore, for some reason, the Hebrew name for Raiders of the Lost Ark -- a fictional storyline about the Ark of the Covenant -- is not "Raiders of the Lost Aron", but rather, "Raiders of the Lost Teiva".

It's amazing what 'word' can get lost, in translation.

The title, Raiders of the Ark, er Lost [written] Word = 769:

שודדי התיבה האבודה

Its sum first appears in Genesis 2:1 --

.א *וַיְכֻלּוּ הַשָּׁמַיִם וְהָאָרֶץ*, וְכָל-צְבָאָם

1 *And the heaven and the earth were finished*, and all the host of them.

[Eagle Forgotten]

Re the cows:

“It was supposed to remind you of Hindus and leave a chuckle. Swung, missed.”

Now that you’ve explained it, I think it was funny, but a lummox like me needed the explanation.

Next time go with a fart joke. More my speed.

[SunkenCiv]

• The Wreck of the Schooner "WYOMING", the Largest Wooden Ship in History [01/24/2022]

[bert]

The premise is flawed

There are no remains of the Ark mentioned in the bible present any where on earth today

[SunkenCiv]

Analogous subjects:

• Archaeologists Uncovered a Painting That May Prove the Existence of a Mysterious Creature [05/02/2025]
• Cyclops Myth Spurred by "One-Eyed" Fossils? [08/11/2004]
• Fossils in Classical Antiquity - what exactly was "The Monster of Troy"? [9:51] [03/13/2025]
• Unearthing The Bones of Greece's Ancient 'Giants' [11/05/2024]

[woodbutcher1963]

These are not like the anchors of a modern ship to hold it in place in a harbor.

These were more like sea anchors. They were deployed off of each side of a vessel to stabilize it in heavy seas. All modern vessels use them to minimize the side to side roll.
Especially when going slow or sitting still and fishing or trolling slowly.

This is the same principal. These stones hung off opposite sides of a vessel to keep side to side roll to a minimum.

[Hootowl]

My apologies for trying to be funny.

[Elsie]

It may not be deep, but it is broad.

[Elsie]

1998...

...Some speculate...

[dfwgator]

Riiiight! What’s a Cubit?

[Elsie]

...Wyoming was the largest known wooden ship ever built.

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Caligula's Giant Ship, also known as the "Round Ship," is the largest known Roman ship, measuring about 312 feet (95.10 m) in length and 69 feet (21.03 m) in beam. Wikipedia

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

We're stuck in a box. An amusing box, but nevertheless....

בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית

Since Hebrew is written left to right, one works one way back through the text -- pick any bible, but in the original language for Genesis -- and the first letter is a box of a sort. Three sides closed to the reader. Top, bottom and the all important right hand side. The box is only "open" in one direction, and that goes "forward" in time and narrative.

Working backwards in time and narrative, one arrives at the end of the "dead end" alley. The image came from some old responsum, which I heard second hand in a homily, decades ago.

Comes down to -- there are many more questions than there are answers. So asking the "donate to us" group doing all this research has lots to say, and part of it comes back to "put something in the box."

[Elsie]

What the author is saying, in clearer language, is:

These stones may not have been traditional anchors used only for holding a vessel in place. Instead, they could have functioned like modern sea anchors or stabilizers. Ancient sailors may have suspended heavy stones from both sides of a vessel. The drag and weight would help reduce rolling from side to side in rough seas, making the vessel more stable when moving slowly, drifting, or remaining nearly stationary.

A few points of clarification:

1. Modern sea anchors are usually fabric drogues or parachute-like devices that create drag in the water. They help keep a boat oriented properly and reduce motion.
2. Modern roll stabilizers can also be fins, tanks, or weighted devices that reduce side-to-side rolling.
3. The commenter is suggesting that ancient stone weights might have served a similar purpose by hanging off the port and starboard sides of a ship.
4. Whether specific archaeological stones actually served this function is often debated. A stone with a hole in it could be an anchor, a mooring stone, a fishing weight, or a stabilizing device depending on its context.

So, rewritten more clearly:

"These stones may have acted as ancient stabilizers rather than simple anchors. By hanging them from both sides of a ship, sailors could reduce side-to-side rolling in rough water, much like modern sea anchors and stabilizing systems help boats remain steady today, especially when moving slowly or sitting nearly motionless."

[Elsie]

‘tis OK, as I hadn’t had much coffee yet.

[Elsie]

Comes down to -- there are many more questions than there are answers.

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ME:   got any actual EVIDENCE that these 'hanging stones' were EVER used?

COPILOT: Short answer: very little, if any, direct evidence.

The claim that large pierced stones were routinely hung off both sides of ancient vessels as roll stabilizers is largely an interpretation, not a well-documented archaeological fact.

Here's the problem:

• We have archaeological finds of stone anchors from many ancient maritime cultures.
• We know some perforated stones were used as anchors, mooring weights, net weights, and fishing gear.
• We know that some ancient vessels used various methods to improve stability.
• But finding a stone with a hole in it does not tell us exactly how it was used.

What would count as evidence?

1. Ancient written descriptions

   • Sailing manuals, inscriptions, or eyewitness accounts describing stones suspended from both sides for stabilization.
   • To my knowledge, no widely accepted ancient text clearly describes this practice.

2. Archaeological context

   • Shipwrecks where pairs of stones are found in positions strongly suggesting side-mounted stabilizers.
   • Again, such evidence is sparse and generally open to interpretation.

3. Depictions in art

   • Carvings, paintings, reliefs, or coins showing vessels with hanging side stones.   (Well, we're WAITING!) caddyshack
   • Not something commonly cited by maritime archaeologists.

4. Experimental archaeology

   • Researchers can demonstrate that hanging weights from a vessel could reduce rolling.
   • But showing that something works is not the same as proving ancient people actually used it.

This is a common issue in archaeology:

"Could these stones have been used this way?" is a different question from "Do we have evidence they were used this way?"

The first can be plausible. The second requires documentation.

So if someone in that Noah's Ark thread says:

"These stones were hung from each side of the vessel as sea anchors."

A fair response would be:

"What archaeological, textual, or iconographic evidence shows that ancient mariners actually used pierced stones this way? Demonstrating that the idea is possible isn't evidence that it happened."

That's the key distinction. In many Ark-site discussions, a lot of arguments rely on functional speculation rather than direct evidence of historical use.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Thanks for that AND what a hoot.

Some LLM [ large language model ] formulates with wiggle words, as in "very little, if any, direct evidence." Very little IF ANY.

Now that is authoritative /sarc. I rely on a very different copilot. And I know you do too.

[Mr. Lucky]

Google on something to the effect of : tree sap amber.