Ararat anomaly

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Coordinates: 39 ° 42 ′ 10 ″  N , 44 ° 16 ′ 30 ″  E

An image of the Ararat anomaly from 1949

The Ararat Anomaly is an unusual structure on one of the snowfields of Great Ararat ( Turkey ) near the mountaintop. The structure was discovered from aerial photographs in 1949, and known because it was interpreted as the remnant of Noah's Ark from the Bible ( Genesis 6-8  EU ).

description

In the photos, the " anomaly " is a dark spot several hundred meters in size on the northwest corner of the western plateau, about 2.2 km west of the 5137 m high summit, on the edge of a steep slope.

Origin and distribution of the image material

The structure was first recorded during a US Air Force aerial reconnaissance mission in 1949 - the Ararat massif is located on the former Turkish-Soviet border. It was therefore of military interest. The file was filed by the Air Force aerial reconnaissance in 1949 under the keyword Ararat Anomaly . Six 1949 images were released under the Freedom of Information Act in 1995 to private scholar Porcher Taylor, a paralegal teacher at the University of Richmond . Taylor hopes to have found the ark and has been collecting all accessible aerial photographs of the region since then.

2000, the magazine was on Taylor's operating Insight on the News of the company Space Imaging (now GeoEye ) the order to go with the satellite IKONOS taken on 5 August and 13 September 2000th GeoEye generated a CGI video from the images, which shows the "anomaly" after about half the running time. In 2006, Taylor arranged for recordings of the commercial exploration satellite QuickBird .

In 2006, American millionaire Daniel McGivern commissioned satellite photos. He wanted to explore the supposed wreck on the Ararat with a Turkish archaeologist .

Expeditions and interpretation of the images

Private individuals had tried several times in vain to find the alleged remains of the ark on site. An investigation at the location of the "anomaly" had not taken place until 2004.

The specialists interviewed by Insight did not rule out a man-made structure in 2000, but believed the anomaly was geological in origin. According to a ZDF documentary from 2006, it is only a rock formation.

In 2007, the Turkish geologist Murat Avci published his research results on the Ararat anomaly. According to his findings, it is a limestone block that is at least 5 million years old, which was ground into its unusual shape by ice.

See also

literature

  • Murat Avci: “Noah's Ark”: its relationship to the Telçeker earthflow, Mount Ararat, Eastern Turkey. In: Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment , August 2007, Volume 66, Issue 3, pp. 377-380 ( Abstract, link.springer.com ).
  • Güner Yılmaz: Is Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat? Geomorphological development of the Doğubeyazit – Telçeker Landslide which is assumed to be related to Noah's Ark. in: Bulletin of Geomorphology , No. 14: 27-37 (1986).
  • [oA:] Noah's Ark is on Mount Ararat. In: Life Magazine Vol. 1, No. 6 (1959), pp. 15-17.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anomaly or Noah's Ark? . Insight on the News , Nov 20, 2000 (on findarticles.com).
  2. ^ Taylor's website
  3. ↑ Computer generated video of the "anomaly"
  4. ↑ CNN.com March 13, 2006: Satellite closes in on Noah's Ark mystery.
  5. ↑ a b Noah's ark and the riddle of the flood. At zdf-enterprises.de.
  6. ↑ Hillary Mayell on National Geographic News, April 27, 2004.
  7. ^ Alleged Noah's Ark find: Stony disappointment , Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 19, 2010.