Mount Ararat was most notably Volcanically active around 3000 b.c. and a few times since. You will notice the lava flow covering the wooden beams in some places and actually ending the beams as it appears the lava burnt through them in attached picture (left center). Hard to plant something like this. Either this is Noah's Ark or an old man-made structure (ref. 1840 volcanic activity, really an earthquake where structures were cover)....It appears this structure is at least as old as the covering lava flow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ararat (ref. wiki)
Great photo, thanks. That should dispel the hoax myth. Ughhhhhhhh, never mind. They could find petrified piles of zoo doo and the skeptics still would be skeptics.
For those who think the lava flow in above picture is ice
Mount Ararat is known as a StratoVolcano. This Lava tends to be Glassy like. Giving it a shimmer. In addition ice is covering the lava adds to the shimmer. It's a naturally occuring Glass called Obsidian which is found in Felsic Lava flow and is caused when this lava cools very quickly (like in a VERY cold environment at 13k Feet on Mount Ararat).
Click Here for StratoVolcano Wiki
The lava that flows from stratovolcanoes tends to be viscous; it cools and hardens before spreading far. The magma forming this lava is often felsic, having high-to-intermediate levels of silica (as in rhyolite, dacite, or andesite), with lesser amounts of less-viscous mafic magma.
Picture of Obsidian Lava almost identical to the Chinese explorer picture I posted above.
