worker examines wooden beams inside 'Noah's Ark'
“evangelical explorers”
so, they went looking for it?
No no no. A court case clearly established the Ark was on Magazine Mountain in Arkansas.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/517155/posts
parsy, who recalls it well
“Now all the writers of barbarian histories make mention of this flood and of this ark; among whom is Berosus the Chaldean; for when he is describing the circumstances of the flood he goes on thus:- ‘It is said there is still some part of this ship in Armenia, at the mountain of the Cordyaeans; and that some people carry off pieces of the bitumen, which they take away, and use chiefly as amulets for the averting of mischiefs.’” - Josephus