Mount Ararat: a story about Noah's ark Bashny.Net

Ararat (Armenian Masis) is a volcanic massif consists of two extinct volcanoes: the greater Ararat and the lesser Ararat. The distance between these two volcanoes is 11 km away. the Height of Big Ararat above sea level — 5165 meters, the distance of the mountain from bottom to top — 4365 metres. Big Ararat from 4250 meters and higher is covered with eternal snow. Height of little Ararat above sea level is 3927 meters.

Khor Virap monastery in Armenia on the background of mount Ararat:



Big and little Ararat:













Ararat valley:







It is not known when Ararat erupted for the last time. Scientists suggest that this could happen in the 3rd Millennium BC In some sources of information can be found that the eruption of mount Ararat was in 1840, and was accompanied by an earthquake, which ruined the monastery of St. James and the village of Argory, located on the mountain. Since then Ararat has no permanent settlements. However, the 1840 eruption was phreatic, i.e., it occurred under the groundwater level and the discharge of lava from the crater of the volcano was not.
Ararat historically belonged to the Armenian people, but in the end of the war between Armenia and Turkey in 1920 and the Moscow Treaty between the USSR and Turkey Ararat became part of Turkey.

Khor Virap monastery in Armenia on the background of mount Ararat:



View of Ararat from Yerevan — capital of Armenia:





Now Ararat from Armenia, separated by 32 km. in Spite of this, mount Ararat is depicted on the coat of arms of Armenia.

The Coat Of Arms Of Armenia





In response to the protest of the Turkish government against the fact that the coat of arms of the Armenian SSR depicted Ararat, not part of Armenia, people's Commissar for foreign Affairs Georgy Chicherin replied: "the flag of the Turkish Crescent, but the Moon is not part of Turkey."

If you look at the coat of arms of Armenia, on the top of mount Ararat to see Noah's ark, which according to the Bible, stopped "in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat" (Genesis, Chapter 8).





The belief that Noah's ark is still located on top of mount Ararat, reflected even in Josephus in the first century ad wrote: "One part of the ship can be detected even today in Armenia. <...> There people collect resin for the manufacture of amulets. <...> The Armenians call this place "the pier", where the ark lay forever, and show still preserved its parts". Marco Polo, passing in the 15th century by mount Ararat, wrote: "You should know that in this country of Armenia on the top of a high mountain rests Noah's ark, covered with eternal snows, and no one is there, to the top of the climb, the more that the snow never melts and new snow Supplement snow cover".
The belief that the top of Ararat is inaccessible to humans, existed even after, in 1829 Professor at the University of Dorpat Johann Friedrich Parrot conquered the top of mount Ararat, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. Two of my companions the Parrot Armenians after climbing claimed that rose to great heights, but not over the top.

Climbing the mountain of Ararat:







In the summer of 1916 the Russian Lieutenant Roskovitsky found on top of Ararat, Noah's ark, almost completely frozen in the ice of the lake. The ark was carefully measured, made drawings of its main structural parts, fully and in parts it was photographed. Soon, however, Russia began a revolution and the documents of the expedition Rogovicnogo was lost.
This case was not the only time that Noah's ark or evidence of its presence was discovered on Ararat. For example, in 1974 the Americans were taking pictures of mount Ararat with a height of 4600 meters. In the photographs obtained with a multiple increase was clearly presented in the object lying in one of the clefts of the mountains, very similar in shape and size to the ark.

Despite the abundant evidence of Noah's ark on mount Ararat is still semi-mythical. Thus, in 1959, thirty kilometers from Ararat was discovered the ark, the size of which coincides with the Bible. It is possible that this is the real Noah's ark, not the one that people look in vain for on the top of Ararat.

Source: udivitelno.com