"face value of the coin in Armenian Dram, the fineness, the weight and the year of issue of the coin, next to the symbol of the mint.The lettering the ""Republic of Armenia” in Armenian and English language surrounds the ensemble. The coin´s reverse depicts the Noah´s Ark in the center of the motif. The white dove with an olive branch in the beak is flying towards the ark. The silhouette of Mount Ararat with a rising sun is shown in the background. The inscription is also the name of the coin: “Noah´s Ark” in Armenian and English lettering is minted"
"and northeast and plains to the west and southwest has a unique place in history. It is the mountain on which Noah's Ark is believed to have landed. One of its peaks, at over 2000 meters, is ""Noah's Visit"" (some Islamic scholars argue that Noah landed on Cudi mountain). Other historical assets of Şırnak include a rock carving from the Assyrians describing a figure on horseback (in Meseici village near Kasrik Pass); other rock carvings dating back to the Neolithic Age which corresponds to 7000 BC (in Beytüşşebap); fortresses of Kale, Meme Kale and Kaletivuru; bridges of the Kasrik Pass"
"modest Jewish population. According to Jewish scripture, Noah's Ark landed on the top of Mount Ararat, a mountain in the Taurus range in Eastern Anatolia, near the present-day borders of Turkey, Armenia, and Iran. Flavius Josephus, Jewish historian of the first century, notes Jewish origins for many of the cities in Asia Minor, though much of his sourcing for these passages is traditional. New Testament mention of Jewish populations in Anatolia is widespread: Iconium (now: Konya) is said to have a synagogue in Acts 14:1, and Ephesus is mentioned as having a synagogue in Acts 19:1 and in Paul's Epistle"
"The site is near several officially-unnamed peaks, though locals call one of the nearby peaks ""Cudi Dağı"" in Turkish and ""Çîyaye Cûdî"" in Kurdish, which David Fasold linked to Mount Judi ( """"), the mountain named in the Quran as the final resting place of Noah's Ark. Some researchers place Mount Judi in another location farther south near the Turkish/Iraqi border. According to local reports, heavy rains combined with three earthquakes exposed the formation from the surrounding mud in May 19, 1948. It was discovered by a Kurdish shepherd named Reshit Sarihan. It was subsequently identified by Turkish Army Captain"
"H. F. B. Lynch (1893)—climbed the mountain. The first winter climb was by Turkish alpinist Bozkurt Ergör, the former president of the Turkish Mountaineering Federation, who climbed the peak on 21 February 1970. According to the fourth verse of the eighth chapter of the Book of Genesis (Genesis 8:4), following a flood, Noah's Ark landed on the ""mountains of Ararat"" (Biblical , ""hare ararat""). Most historians and Bible scholars agree that ""Ararat"" is the Hebrew name of Urartu, the geographic predecessor of Armenia and referred to the wider region at the time and not the mountain today known as Ararat."
"Durupınar site The Durupınar site is a large aggregate structure on Mount Tendürek in eastern Turkey. The site is 3 kilometres (2 mi) north of the Iranian border, 16 km (10 mi) southeast of Doğubeyazıt, in the Ağrı Province, and 29 km (18 miles) south of the Greater Mount Ararat summit, at an elevation of 1,966 to 2,004 m (6,449 to 6,575 ft) above sea level. The size and shape of the structure has led to its promotion by some believers as the original Noah's Ark, but geologists and even some creationists argue that it is merely a natural formation."
"is separated from Anatolia (the Asian portion of Turkey) by the Bosphorus (), the Sea of Marmara (), and the Dardanelles (); which collectively form the strategic Turkish Straits that link the Aegean Sea with the Black Sea. Mount Ararat, Turkey's tallest mountain with an elevation of , is the legendary landing place of Noah's Ark and is located in the far eastern portion of the country. Land boundaries: ""border countries:"" Greece , Bulgaria , Georgia , Armenia , Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan) , Iran , Iraq , Syria . Coastline: ""Maritime claims:"" ""exclusive economic zone:"" in the Black Sea only: to"
"Ararat anomaly The Ararat anomaly is an object appearing on photographs of the snowfields near the summit of Mount Ararat, Turkey and advanced by some Christian believers as the remains of Noah's Ark. The anomaly is located on the northwest corner of the Western Plateau of Mount Ararat (approximately ) at about , some west of the summit, on the edge of what appears from the photographs to be a steep downward slope. It was first filmed during a U.S. Air Force aerial reconnaissance mission in 1949 — the Ararat massif sits on the former Turkish/Soviet border, and was thus"
"and 1990–1992. The Defense Intelligence Agency believes the anomaly shows ""linear facades in the glacial ice underlying more recently accumulated ice and snow."" Ararat anomaly The Ararat anomaly is an object appearing on photographs of the snowfields near the summit of Mount Ararat, Turkey and advanced by some Christian believers as the remains of Noah's Ark. The anomaly is located on the northwest corner of the Western Plateau of Mount Ararat (approximately ) at about , some west of the summit, on the edge of what appears from the photographs to be a steep downward slope. It was first filmed"
"first recorded ascent. Despite the scholarly consensus that the ""mountains of Ararat"" of the Book of Genesis do not refer specifically to Mt. Ararat, it has been widely accepted in Christianity as the resting place of Noah's Ark. It is the principal national symbol of Armenia and has been considered a sacred mountain by Armenians. It is featured prominently in Armenian literature and art and is an icon for Armenian irredentism. Along with Noah's Ark, it is depicted on the coat of arms of Armenia. Mount Ararat forms a near-quadripoint between Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran. Its summit is located"
"Indeed, the phrase is translated as ""mountains of Armenia"" (""montes Armeniae"") in the Vulgate, the fourth century Latin translation of the Bible. Nevertheless, Mount Ararat is considered the traditional site of the resting place of Noah's Ark. It is therefore called a biblical mountain. Mount Ararat has been associated with the Genesis flood story since the 11–12th centuries. The local Armenian population began to identify it as the ark's landing place during those centuries. F. C. Conybeare wrote that the mountain was ""a center and focus of pagan myths and cults [...] and it was only in the eleventh century,"
"in his 1988 book that locals call one of the peaks near to the Durupinar site al Cudi (Turkish ""Cudi Dagi"", Kurdish ""Çîyaye Cûdî"") and linked this to the Mount Judi named in the Quran as the final resting place of Noah's Ark. The assertion is controversial and not well supported by local toponymy. After a few expeditions to the Durupınar site that included drilling and excavation in the 1990s, Fasold began to have doubts that the Durupınar formation was Noah's ark. He visited the site in September 1994 with Australian geologist Ian Plimer and concluded that the structure was"
"Mount Judi Mount Judi ( ', ', , """", ), also spelled Guti and Kutu, according to very Early Christian and Islamic tradition (based on the Qur'an, Hud:44), is Noah's apobaterion or ""Place of Descent"", the location where the Ark came to rest after the Great Flood. The Quranic tradition is similar to the Judeo-Christian legend. The identification of Mount Judi as the landing site of the ark persisted in Syriac and Armenian tradition throughout Late Antiquity but was abandoned for the tradition equating the biblical location with the highest mountain of the region, Mount Ararat. Jewish Babylonian, Syriac, and"
"after these had vanished from the popular mind, that the Armenian theologians ventured to locate on its eternal snows the resting-place of Noah's ark."" The 13th century Franciscan missionary William of Rubruck is usually considered the earliest reference for the tradition of Mount Ararat as the landing place of the ark in European literature. The 14th century English traveler John Mandeville is another early author who mentioned Mount Ararat, ""where Noah's ship rested, and it is still there."" Most Christians identify Mount Ararat with the biblical ""mountains of Ararat,"" despite the fact that six other landing places have been proposed,"
"built by Noah that could be seen in his day, and the traveller Ibn Battuta passed by the mountain in the 14th century. In the 1980s, adventurer and self-styled archaeologist Ron Wyatt and his colleague David Fasold claimed to have discovered Noah's Ark at Durupınar, some twenty miles from Mt. Ararat near a mountain locals called ""Cudi Dağı"". Fasold later vacillated on the claim. The description of medieval geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi matches exactly a 2089 m peak north of Silopi, that is now called ""Jabal Judi"" or ""Judi Dagh"" by Muslims and ""Gardu"" by Christians and Jews. Mount Judi Mount"
"Mountains of Ararat In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat (Biblical Hebrew , Tiberian """", Septuagint: ) is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood. It corresponds to ancient Assyrian Urartu, an exonym for the Kingdom of Van. Citing historians Berossus, Hieronymus the Egyptian, Mnaseas, and Nicolaus of Damascus, Josephus writes in his ""Antiquities of the Jews"" that ""[t]he ark rested on the top of a certain mountain in Armenia, . . . over Minyas, called Baris."" Likewise, in the Latin Vulgate, Jerome translates Genesis 8:4 to"
"Ararat are known as Büyük Ağrı and Küçük Ağrı, respectively. The traditional Persian name is , , , literally the ""mountain of Noah"". The Kurdish name of the mountain is çiyayê Agirî , which translates to ""fiery mountain"". Mount Ararat is located in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey between the provinces of Ağrı and Iğdır, near the border with Iran, Armenia and Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan, between the Aras and Murat rivers. Its summit is located some west of the Turkey-Iran border and south of the Turco-Armenian border. The Ararat plain runs along its northwest to western side. An"
"The flood waters eventually subside, and Noah's ark comes to rest on Mount Ararat. A large area of Mount Ararat was in Armenian territory, as the border between Armenia and Turkey ran over the top of the mountain. Armenia was divided between the Soviet Union and Turkey following World War 1, and Mt. Ararat became part of Turkey—but it is still an important part of the national identity. The symbolic figure of Mount Ararat is still in the Coat of arms of Armenia. The coin´s obverse of this exclusive coin edition depicts the Armenian Coat of Arms. Underneath is the"
"16th-century geometer Johannes Buteo calculated the ship's internal dimensions, allowing room for Noah's grinding mills and smokeless ovens, a model widely adopted by other commentators. Searches for Noah's Ark have been made from at least the time of Eusebius (c.275–339 CE) to the present day. Today, the practice is widely regarded as pseudoarchaeology. Various locations for the ark have been suggested but have never been confirmed. Search sites have included Durupınar site, a site on Mount Tendürek in eastern Turkey and Mount Ararat, but geological investigation of possible remains of the ark has only shown natural sedimentary formations. Commentaries on"
"""largely because it would have been the first peak to emerge from the receding flood waters."" Ararat is where the European tradition and most of Western Christianity place the landing of Noah's Ark. According to Spencer and Lienard the tradition ""seems to be well entrenched in the Christian world."" A 1722 biblical dictionary by Austin Calmet and the 1871 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary both point to Mount Ararat as the place where tradition says the ark rested. American missionary H. G. O. Dwight wrote in 1856 that it is ""the general opinion of the learned in Europe."" James Bryce, while admitting"
"of Ararat. Sir Walter Raleigh devotes several chapters of his ""Historie of the World"" (1614) to an argument that in ancient times the mountains of Ararat were understood to include not only those of Armenia, but also all of the taller mountain ranges extending into Asia. He maintains that since Armenia is not actually located east of Shinar, the ark must have landed somewhere in the Orient. Mountains of Ararat In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat (Biblical Hebrew , Tiberian """", Septuagint: ) is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to"
"Mount Ararat Mount Ararat ( ; ; , ""Masis"" and Արարատ, ""Ararat"") is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the extreme east of Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey and the Armenian plateau with an elevation of ; while, Little Ararat's elevation is . The Ararat massif is about wide at ground base. The first efforts to reach Ararat's summit were made in the Middle Ages. However, it was not until 1829 when Friedrich Parrot and Khachatur Abovian, accompanied by four others, made the"
"and Noah's Ark agrees with that given in Genesis, with a few variations. One of these concerns the final resting place of the Ark: according to Genesis, the Ark grounded on the ""mountains of Ararat"". According to ""Surah"" 11:44 of the Qur'an, the final resting place of the vessel was called ""Judi"", without the word ""mountain"". However, the use of Arabic definite letter ""Al"" in front of word Judi in the Quran signifies that it is pointing to a definite place (or mountain, in this case). Had it been referring to a general height, it would have been just ""Judi"","
"the ark: I firmly believe that the governments of Turkey, Russia, and the United States know exactly where the ark sits. They suppress the information, but (...) God is in charge. The structure will be revealed in its time. We climb the mountain and search, hoping it is, in fact, God's time as we climb. Use us, O Lord, is our prayer. According to Genesis 8:4, the Ark came to rest ""on the mountains of Ararat."" Early commentators such as Josephus, and authorities quoted by him, Berossus, Hieronymus the Egyptian, Mnaseas, and Nicolaus of Damascus, record the tradition that these"
"Pontic Mountains The Pontic Mountains or Pontic Alps (Turkish: ""Kuzey Anadolu Dağları"", meaning North Anatolian Mountains) form a mountain range in northern Anatolia, Turkey. They are also known as the ""Parhar Mountains"" in the local Turkish and Pontic Greek languages. The term ""Parhar"" originates from a Hittite word meaning ""high"" or ""summit"". In ancient Greek, the mountains were called the Paryadres or Parihedri Mountains. The range runs roughly east-west, parallel and close to the southern coast of the Black Sea. It extends northeast into Georgia, and west into the Sea of Marmara, with the northwestern spur of the Küre Mountains"
"rest."" Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, also mentioned Mount Ararat as the resting place of Noah's Ark in his speech at the Etchmiadzin Cathedral during his visit to Armenia in 2010. Those critical of this view point out that Ararat was the name of the country, not the mountain, at the time when Genesis was written. Arnold wrote in his 2008 Genesis commentary, ""The location 'on the mountains' of Ararat indicates not a specific mountain by that name, but rather the mountainous region of the land of Ararat."" Ararat has traditionally been the main"
"that the biblical passage implies that the ark rested upon a ""mountain in the district which the Hebrews knew as Ararat, or Armenia"", wrote in an 1878 article for the Royal Geographical Society that the biblical writer must have had Mt. Ararat in mind because it is so ""very much higher, more conspicuous, and more majestic than any other summit in Armenia."" During his visit to Armenia in 2001 Pope John Paul II declared in his homily in Yerevan's St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral: ""We are close to Mount Ararat, where tradition says that the Ark of Noah came to"
"independent of the Genesis account of Noah's flood, rooted in the more general Near Eastern flood legends, but following Christianization of the Syrians, from about the 2nd century AD, it became associated with the Mountains of Ararat where Noah landed according to Genesis, and from Syria also this legend also spread to the Armenians. The Armenians did not traditionally associate Noah's landing site with Mount Ararat, known natively as ""Masis"", but until the 11th century continued to associate Noah's ark with Mount Judi. It is to be noted, the biblical ""Ararat"" is thought be a variation of ""Urartu"", an ancient"
"Şırnak Şırnak (Kurdish: ""Şirnex"") is a town in southeastern Turkey. It is the capital of Şırnak Province, a new province that split from the Hakkari province. The Habur border gate with Iraq which is one of Turkey's main links to Middle Eastern countries is also on Şırnak. The settlement was originally called Şehr-i Nuh (""City of Noah"") since it was near Cudi Mountain where Noah's Ark finally believed to have landed after the Flood. During the Guti Empire's reign in the region, a special inscription style called ""civi zend"" was invented. Mount Cudi, surrounded by other mountains to the east"
"dying of cancer in Corvallis, Oregon, on April 26, 1998, financially broken from years of expeditions and research. Always interested in the history of the Bible and Noah's Ark, Fasold studied pre-Christian accounts of the Deluge and came to believe that the ark would be found not on Mt. Ararat but somewhere to the southwest. In 1985, Fasold teamed up with Ron Wyatt to investigate the Durupınar site (located at approximately ), a boat-shaped mound site named after Turkish Army Captain İlhan Durupınar who identified the formation in a Turkish Air Force aerial photo while on a mapping mission for"
"Mount Nemrut Nemrut or Nemrud (; ; ) is a mountain in southeastern Turkey, notable for the summit where a number of large statues are erected around what is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC. The mountain lies north of Kahta, near Adıyaman. In 62 BC, King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene built on the mountain top a tomb-sanctuary flanked by huge statues of himself, two lions, two eagles and various Greek, Armenian, and Medes gods, such as Zeus-Aramazd or Oromasdes (associated with Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda), Hercules-Vahagn, Tyche-Bakht, and Apollo-Mihr-Mithras. These statues were once"
"term for the region north of ancient Assyria which encompasses the Armenian plateau. According to Josephus, the Armenians in the 1st century showed the remains of Noah's ark at a place called αποβατηριον ""Place of Descent"" (, ""Nakhichevan"", Ptolemy's Ναξουανα), about 60 miles southeast of the summit of Mount Ararat (ca. ). The ""mountains of Ararat"" in Genesis have become identified in later (medieval) Christian tradition with the peak now known as Mount Ararat itself, a volcanic massif on the border between Turkey and Armenia and known in Turkish as ""Agri Dagh"" (Ağrı Dağı). The Quranic account of the Flood"
"Yenidoğan, Aralık Yenidoğan ( ""Akoři""; ; ) is a village in eastern Turkey, on the northeastern slope of Mount Ararat, adjacent to the point where the borders of Turkey, Iran, and Armenia meet. It was formerly known as Ahora until 1965 and as Akhuri under Russian administration, before the Treaty of Kars. It was also known as Arguri. The village is a part of the Aralık district of Turkey's Iğdır Province, which largely corresponds to the historic region of Surmali. It is nearly 50 kilometers south of Yerevan, the Armenian capital. The name ""Yenidoğan"" literally means ""newborn"" in the Turkish"