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Noah's Ark truth or fiction
Noah's Ark and its background
The story of Noah's Ark is told in the first book of Moses, Genesis.
Chapters 6, 7 and 8 are dedicated to Him.
The ark is named after Noah, the son of Lamech.
These people were direct descendants of Adam and Eve.
Moreover, they were distinguished by an amazing longevity.
Adam himself lived for 930 years, and Lamech stayed on earth for 777 years.
Noah had children when he turned 500 years old.
However, if we assume that in the " Old Testament "the word" years "means" months", then human life acquires a completely normal duration.
When Noah turned 600 years old, God planned to destroy the human race, since it had morally and morally decomposed and ceased to please the Creator with the purity of his thoughts and the righteousness of his deeds.
But the son of Lamech fell out of the general series of degraded personalities.
And then it was decided to save his life and start all over again.
God called Noah to himself, told him to build a wooden ark and tar it thoroughly.
He gave the specific dimensions of the structure.
The length is 300 cubits, the width is 50 cubits and the height is 30 cubits.
The elbow is approximately 46 cm.
So, the length was about 138 meters, the width, respectively, was 23 meters and the height was 14 meters.
This corresponds to a 5 storey building with small sized apartments.
The design is quite impressive.
When everything was ready, the Creator ordered Noah to enter the ark with his family, and also to take with him seven pairs of clean cattle, and two pairs of unclean ones.
7 days were allotted for everything about everything.
Noah coped with the task.
As soon as the last earthly creature stepped on board the ark, the flood began.
It happened in the 600th year of our hero's life, in the second month and on the 17th day.
The flood lasted for 150 days.
All this time, Noah's ark was floating on raging waters.
The whole earth was flooded.
The water level rose above the highest mountains by 7 meters, and all living things died.
Then the flood ended.
The water level began to slowly fall.
On the 7th month after the start of the journey, the ark ended up on the Ararat Mountains.
But only on the 10th month, mountain peaks appeared out of the water.
After that, the huge ship touched the bottom and froze in place.
In total, a year passed before people and animals set foot on earth again.
After the natural cataclysm, Noah lived for another 350 years.
The total duration of his life was 950 years.
Did Noah's Ark really exist?
Findings and assumptions
Opinions differ about the existence of Noah's Ark.
Some people believe that such a fact really took place 4400 years ago.
Others categorically deny the biblical information, calling it a beautiful fairy tale.
But any child knows that there is always some truth in a fairy tale.
This opinion was held and is held by many researchers.
The point of view here is unambiguous, in order to prove the authenticity of the facts set out in the "Old Testament", it is necessary to find the remains of a huge wooden ship.
But the matter is complicated by the fact that the area of the Ararat mountain system reaches 1300 square kilometers.
This is a huge area located in the eastern part of Turkey.
Taking into account the past 44 centuries, as well as volcanic eruptions, it is extremely difficult to find any objects left from the ark.
Mount Ararat.
It is somewhere on it that Noah's Ark lies
It should also be taken into account the fact that the Bible explicitly says that Noah's ark ended up on the Ararat Mountains.
But was it the mountainous area in the east of modern Turkey that was meant?
Perhaps the ancient chroniclers spoke of completely different mountains.
There is no doubt that Noah built a huge ship in Mesopotamia.
Information about the flood is directly related to the Sumerians.
And those, as you know, lived in the eastern regions of Mesopotamia.
Those who wrote the Bible drew their knowledge from the Babylonian chronicles, created on the basis of Sumerian legends.
But did the priests of the ancient country know about Mount Ararat?
Rather, they might have been referring to the Cordien Mountains.
They are located on the border of Turkey and Syria, that is, in a more southern area.
And, consequently, the search area increases significantly.
But researchers are inclined to believe that it was on the inaccessible volcanic peak that the huge ship found its haven, since it is the highest.
It was Mount Ararat that became the land on which the exhausted wanderers set foot after a year of ordeal on raging waters.
Since the middle of the XIX century, several expeditions have visited this area.
All the researchers claimed to have seen something similar to the remains of the ark.
The situation worsened when people came up with aviation, and after it, reconnaissance aircraft.
During the Cold War, they constantly flew over these areas and photographed the area, since it was a strategically important object.
Thanks to these pictures, we managed to see a strange object that resembles a boat in its shape.
It is located in the northwestern part of the mountain at an altitude of 2700 meters above sea level.
There is a similar formation south of Mount Ararat.
This is the area of the Tendyurek volcano.
There is also a peculiar object there, which can be described as the skeleton of a large ship.
It was to him that the American amateur archaeologist Ronald Wyatt made several expeditions.
His findings did not cause a stir in scientific circles, but the researcher is still convinced that he found Noah's Ark.
In the foreground, a fossil is clearly visible, resembling a sea vessel in its shape
What is the formation located near Tenderyuk?
This is a fossil that, in its appearance and dimensions, corresponds to the dimensions of the ark specified in the "Old Testament".
We can assume that once there was a huge man made creation made of wood in this place.
Under the influence of volcanic eruptions, the wood was petrified.
Lignin and cellulose disintegrated, and organic substances were replaced by minerals.
It turned out to be chalcedony, opal, quartz.
But the shape of the huge vessel has been preserved.
Only after the passage of centuries, the ark turned from a wooden one into a stone one.
Samples of this stone were examined by scientists.
But even without chemical analysis, it became clear that this is not petrified wood, but volcanic lava.
The fact is that if you take the same quartz and hold it on the glass, then a well distinguishable scratch will remain on the smooth surface.
A piece of stone, which was allegedly part of a huge ship, did not leave anything on the glass.
It turned out to be much softer than a mineral, that is, it could not be a petrified tree.
But was it possible for Noah, using the technologies of that distant time, to build a ship with such dimensions as are given in the Bible?
There is a stable scientific point of view on this issue, which we will now get acquainted with.
Could Noah have built a huge ark and sailed on it to Mount Ararat?
Let's start with the size of the ship.
Its length was 138 meters.
The value is very decent.
Humanity did not build anything like this out of wood later.
And not just made of wood, but from solid trunks split into boards.
The longest all wood vessel made of Canadian pine was built in 1909 on the northeastern coast of the United States in Maine.
This is a two deck schooner "Wyoming".
Its length was 100.4 meters.
If we take the length taking into account the bowsprit (a spar tree that protrudes forward on the bow of the vessel to improve maneuverability), then we get a value of 124.8 meters.
The schooner sailed all her life in coastal waters and never went out into the open ocean.
But in 1924, the Wyoming was in open waters, got into a strong storm and sank very quickly.
What is the cause of death?
A long board bends under the influence of sea waves
The planks that made up the schooner's hull parted.
Water gushed into the holes formed, and the ship sank to the bottom.
The fact is that a long board under the influence of the water element begins to bend.
Its edges then rise up, then fall down.
This completely destroys the tightness of the seams, which leads to the death of a long wooden ship.
Now, armed with the necessary knowledge, let's look at Noah's Ark.
It was 38 meters longer than the Wyoming.
And where did Noah get such long trunks, and even managed to split them into boards?
At that time, he could only use a tool made of soft copper.
There was no such thing as a sawmill, of course.
Apparently, the man hammered wedges and thus split the trunks, which significantly exceeded the length of modern trees.
At the expense of the size of the forest, there is a version that before the flood, nature on Earth was completely different.
The vegetation was much larger than in our days, and the trees were 2-3 times higher in height than modern ones.
Noah's Ark is depicted in the section There were three decks in total.
In the side compartments there was water and food The middle part of the ship was occupied by rooms for people and animals
Let it be so.
Our hero cut down huge trees, split them into boards.
I made ropes from twisted teak branches, which are not inferior in strength to steel ropes.
He tied the boards with them, and sealed the grooves between them with moss and beeswax.
It turned out to be a huge, wooden, absolutely sealed structure.
After that, people and creatures of the earth entered the ark.
They met the flood in a safe shelter.
The waters lifted the ship and whirled it in endless whirlpools.
The ark turned out to be on the most real ocean expanses.
Wind, huge waves.
All this mercilessly shook the ship.
And then the tragedy began.
The boards began to diverge for the same reason as the "Wyoming".
The tightness was broken.
Water began to fill the wooden structure.
Taking into account the fact that the flood completely covered the Earth, all the passengers of the huge swimming vehicle died.
But let's assume that the tightness was at the highest level.
The water did not get inside the vessel.
However, it should be taken into account that the ark did not have any control.
When an uncontrolled ship turns sideways to a huge wave, what happens?
That's right, it turns over.
That is, the creation of Noah's hands had to lift its keel up and sink.
But there is a theory here that completely refutes such a sad interpretation of events.
The fact is that researchers found basalt plates near the so called ark.
Some of them had holes in them.
We can assume that they were made either by nature or by human hands.
But why did a person need to chisel a stone?
One of the basalt plates found near a fossil similar to Noah's Ark
The researchers explain this as follows: the plates, if placed underwater along the sides of the ship, will serve as stabilizers, and the floating vehicle will not capsize when exposed to large ocean waves.
Such basalt products hang in the water on ropes that are tightly attached to the sides.
They evenly distribute the weight of the floating vehicle and give it additional stability.
This t eoria is good for everyone.
But there is one caveat.
If we assume that Noah's ark was built in Mesopotamia, then such statements lose all meaning.
The bottom line is that there is no basalt in the Mesopotamia.
Our hero could not take it anywhere with all his desire.
Another version of saving people and animals during the flood
The great flood is written not only in the Bible.
The priests of Babylon, who lived 500 years before Moses, told about the terrible cataclysm.
This information is reflected on ancient clay tablets.
The approximate time of the disaster is also named – 9 thousand years ago.
It is also said about the saved.
Moreover, it is explicitly stated that people sailed on a ship that had a round shape.
Round fishing boats have been very popular for many thousands of years in many parts of the world.
If such a boat is made very large, then both people and livestock can fit in it.
Round Fishing Boat
So maybe there was no Noah's Ark, although it sounds blasphemous.
A long time ago, a flood began in Mesopotamia.
People saved themselves and livestock in round boats.
They were in every family, as the people settled near the rivers and were engaged in fishing.
The huge flotilla floated on the waves for some time, until it landed on an undisturbed mountainous area.
On the tops of mountains and hills, the inhabitants of Mesopotamia waited out the natural cataclysm.
Then the water left, and people returned to normal life.
Memories of the tragedy are preserved in legends.
Over time, they transformed into a beautiful legend that Moses heard.
After all, he lived in Egypt, was brought up at the court of the pharaoh and, of course, communicated with representatives of the priestly caste.
Hence the Noah's Ark appeared.
This beautiful and romantic story was recorded in the"Old Testament".
He has survived to our times and has given rise to many versions and assumptions.
But all of the above is not at all true in the last instance.
No one can say how everything really happened.
And if so, then people will continue to look for a mysterious wooden ship, thanks to which all living things that existed on our Earth at that time were saved.
Igor Tomshin
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