The many sightings of Noah’s Ark

The Calgary Herald (Alberta)
June 19, 2005 Sunday
Final Edition
The many sightings of Noah’s Ark
In the context of a new Noah’s Ark expedition to eastern Turkey,
Baptist Press News offers some sightings from Ron Stewart’s book,
Noah’s Ark:
A Scientific Look, Past And Future.
Among Stewart’s list of 100:
475 BCE — A Chaldean priest reports seeing the Ark’s remains at the
bottom of a mountain glacier.
30 BCE — Egyptian historian Hieronimus says the Ark’s remains can be
seen on Mt. Ararat.
50 CE — Nicholas of Damascus and Flavius Josephus both report the
Ark’s remains are preserved in their time.
560 — St. Isadore reports seeing the wood of the Ark on Mt. Ararat.
620 — After conquering Armenia, Byzantine Emperor Heraclius
reportedly climbs Ararat and sees the Ark.
1269 — Explorer Marco Polo reports seeing the Ark after a three-day
climb in “the snowy reaches” — at the bottom of the summit, not its
peak.
1647 — Explorer Adam Olerius reports seeing its petrified remains.
1829 — Frederick Parrot reports Ark relics in a church at Ararat’s
base, later destroyed in an 1840 earthquake.
1832-1850 — Expeditions from Russia, Turkey and England fail to find
it.
1856 — Two British scientists climb Ararat to disprove the Ark, but
report a “chest-like” shape of petrified wood at 15,000 feet on
Ararat’s northeast side.
1887 — Indian explorer John Nouri locates the Ark and recommends
recovering it for the 1900 World’s Fair.
1917 — Ark photos and measurements are taken by a Russian
expedition, but lost when the czar topples.
1945 — A Turkish pilot claims to have photographed the Ark.
1949 — Aerial photos show a formation resembling a ship with
dimensions fitting the Bible story.
1990 — Laser enhancement of satellite photo reportedly shows a
boxlike shape, broken in half.