Could Noah's Ark remains be buried in Turkey? New findings revive age-old debate

A researcher who believes he's identified the remains of Noah's Ark points to caller ungraded information to enactment his claims.

Andrew Jones, a researcher with Noah's Ark Scans, said successful a caller quality connected "Fox & Friends" that the squad believes a tract successful Turkey contains the buried remains of the biblical vessel.

The formation, located astatine the Durupinar site successful eastbound Turkey, has been studied since it was archetypal identified successful the 1950s — and has agelong been the taxable of spirited debate.

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Some geologists reason the "ark" is simply a people occurring enactment — yet different researchers accidental the latest findings connection caller enactment for the biblical vas theory.

One root of the skepticism: A 1996 insubstantial published successful the peer-reviewed Journal of Geoscience Education argued the enactment was a earthy geological structure, not the remains of Noah's Ark.

Researchers accidental caller ungraded investigation from Turkey's Durupinar enactment shows chemic differences accordant with decayed integrated material, fueling claims that the tract could incorporate remains of Noah's Ark. (Huseyin Yildiz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images; Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Speaking to Fox News Digital, Jones said helium believes the caller results "are possibly the astir compelling grounds for a man-made origin."

He added, "The differences betwixt the 'inside' and 'outside' samples are statistically staggering. Organic substance was 3 times much wrong the vessel signifier versus the ungraded conscionable close outside."

That quality successful integrated matter, helium said, suggests a "massive attraction of decayed carbon-based material" — specified arsenic wood, resin oregon carnal matter.

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But successful the 1996 paper, authors Lorence Gene Collins and David Franklin Fasold described erstwhile Noah's Ark claims arsenic "bogus," penning that the tract was alternatively "a earthy stone structure."

The latest findings halfway connected a recently released ungraded analysis, which researchers accidental points to chemic differences accordant with decayed integrated worldly beneath the surface.

The ungraded samples were collected successful 2024 and person been analyzed successful the months since.

Scientists researching astatine Turkey's Durupinar tract accidental they person recovered convincing grounds supporting the Noah's Ark hypothesis. (Noah's Ark Scans)

"If it was random mountainside world that came down astir a rock, past the ungraded would beryllium the same," Jones said.

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Researchers recovered 38% much potassium wrong the vessel shape, which is associated with wood ash, arsenic good arsenic an eight-times quality successful pH level.

Jones said a extremist displacement successful pH "suggests the interior situation has a antithetic chemic past than the surrounding mountainside soil."

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"An eight-times quality successful pH and 3 times the integrated substance suggests a 'closed system' wherever biologic materials decayed implicit time, leaching minerals into the surrounding world and permanently altering its chemistry," helium said.

A wide presumption of Mount Ararat, besides known arsenic Agri Mountain, successful Agri, Turkey, which is alleged to person traces of Noah's Ark, connected Oct. 25, 2017. (Huseyin Yildiz/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

The findings volition apt substance further statement implicit the Durupinar formation.

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But the caller data, Jones said, "suggests an interior complexity that is hard to property to earthy geological processes."

Jones said the squad is asking Turkish scientists to bash further testing, including halfway drilling and precocious 3-D mapping.

"We truly judge that this layout ... would suggest that it's a man-made entity and not conscionable a earthy formation."

Said Jones, "We’ve moved from asking 'Does it look similar a boat?' to 'Why is determination a three-layered, right-angled wrong structure, carbon-rich vessel enactment the nonstop magnitude of Noah's ark fixed successful the Bible buried successful the mediate of a mountainside successful the mountains of Ararat?'"

He has besides pointed to scan information showing subsurface features wrong the formation.

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Jones told "Fox & Friends" that probe has shown "there are tunnels astir 4 meters down and astir 2 meters high, going down the halfway of the vessel and connected the wrong borderline of the hull shape.

"We truly judge that this layout ... would suggest that it's a man-made entity and not conscionable a earthy formation," helium said.

Fox News Digital antecedently reported connected Jones' earlier analyses of imaginable integrated worldly and anomalies beneath the formation.

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The probe builds connected erstwhile 3-D crushed penetrating radar scans from 2019 that "struck subsurface features," and recovered anomalies. 

Max Bacall of Fox News Digital contributed reporting.