The Ark of Noah
9 And thus he became the Prince of Peace and behold the righteousness of the people became exceedingly great, for they did hearken unto the words of Melchizedec, and they, even they, did attain unto the righteousness of the City of Enoch, even Zion, as before the flood—for Melchizedec did preach unto the inhabitants round about many years after the Ark came to rest upon Mount Ararat, upon which mount it resteth to this day, saith the Lord, being preserved by the ice and snow—which Zion, saith the Lord, was built by Enoch and his brethren upon this the American continent.
10 And Enoch was the great-grandfather of Noah, after the flesh.
11 And Zion was built before the flood, saith the Lord. The Revelations of Jesus Christ, Section 5.
From InsightMag.com:
CIA Releases New 'Noah's
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By Timothy W. Maier
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Two
years after Insight filed an appeal charging that the CIA
withheld documents and imagery concerning the Mount Ararat anomaly in Turkey,
the CIA has released two new documents to Insight that indicate
the search for "Noah's Ark" reached the level of the White House
under former president George H.W. Bush.
The appeal, filed one month after Insight's exclusive story (see
"Anomaly
or Noah's Ark?"; Nov. 20, 2000), comes on the heels of the CIA's
releasing thousands of satellite images, which soon will be available at
National Imagery and Mapping Agency Website. It is unclear whether images of
Unfortunately, the release of the additional records does not offer any more
proof of what the object might be, but only raises more questions as to why the
CIA continues to hold such records as classified.
One of the records released is a 1995 memo from an agent who had a conversation with John Hanford, then a member of Sen.
Richard Lugar's (R-Ind.) staff.
The memo was triggered by a newspaper article that suggested
The other record concerned a review the George H.W.
Bush administration conducted between 1990 and 1992 concerning
Insight still may receive additional records. The CIA has asked
other agencies to review specific records for possible release in the near
future. In the meantime, Insight is reviewing its options on
whether to pursue in federal court images taken by the CIA with its KH-9 remote-sensing satellite in 1973 and its KH-11 satellite in 1976, 1990 and 1992.
Timothy Maier is a writer for Insight.
"Much of the credit for obtaining the
Ararat Anomaly photos goes to Porcher Taylor. The 1949 photo above was released
to Mr. Taylor on March, 14, 1995, who requested the DIA photos using the Freedom
of Information Act.
While camping on the Western Plateau in 1989, Bob Garbe and I stood just above
the Ararat Anomaly."
Close-up view of the 1949 Ararat Anomaly
Lieutenant Roskovitsky, Russian Aviator's Account of the Ark on Ararat: (Back to Top)
In the summer of 1916, during the thaw, Lieutenant Roskovitsky of the Russian
Imperial Air Force noticed a half-frozen lake on the shelf or gully on the side
of Mount Ararat while flying high-altitude test to observe Turkish troop
movements. As they flew nearer to the lake, he saw a half submerged hull of some
sort of ship. He noticed two stubby masts and a flat catwalk along the top. The
following excerpts were taken from Berlitz.In Roskovitsky's words (from the New
Eden Magazine, California, 1939): "We flew down as close as safety permitted and
took several circles around it. We were surprised when we got close to it, at
the immense size of the thing, for it was as long as a city block, and would
compare very favorably in size to the modern battleships of today. It was
grounded on the shore of the lake, with one-fourth underwater. It had been
partly dismantled on one side near the front, and on the other side there was a
great doorway nearly twenty feet square, but with the other door gone. This
seemed quite out of proportion, as even today, ships seldom have doors even half
that large ...."He then told his captain who wanted to be flown over the site.
The captain stated that it was Noah's Ark and explained the reason for its
survival as "frozen up for nine of ten months of the year, it couldn't rot, and
has been in cold storage, as it were, all this time .... "The captain forwarded
a report back to St. Petersburg resulting in orders from the Tsar to send two
engineering companies up the mountain. One group of fifty men attacked one side,
and the other group of one hundred men attacked the big mountain from the other
side. Two weeks of hard work were required to chop out a trail along the cliffs
of the lower part of the mountain, and it was nearly a month before the Ark was
reached. Complete measurements were taken, and plans drawn of it, as well as
many photographs, all of which were sent to the Tsar. From the magazine article:
"The Ark was found to contain hundreds of small rooms, and some rooms that were
very large, with high ceilings. The unusually large rooms had a fence of great
timbers across them, some of which were two feet thick, as if designed to hold
beasts ten times the size of elephants. Other rooms were also lined with tiers
of cages, somewhat like what one sees today at a poultry show, only instead of
chicken wire, they had rows of small iron bars along the front. Everything was
heavily painted with a waxlike paint resembling shellac, and the workmanship of
the craft showed all the signs of a high type of civilization. The wood used
throughout was oleander, which belongs to the cypress family and never rots;
which of course, coupled with the fact of its being frozen most of the time,
accounted for its perfect preservation. "The investigation officers sent
photographs and reports by courier back to Petrograd, to the personal attention
of the Tsar. But Nicholas II apparently never received them during the breakdown
of communications that followed the February and October Revolutions of 1917.
The results of the investigation have never been found or reported.. A rumor
says the results and pictures of the Ark came to the attention of Leon Trotsky,
who either destroyed them or placed them in a file destined to be kept
permanently secret. And the courier who delivered the news, his silence was
sealed with his execution.
Marco Polo's Account: (Back to Top)
The
information for this section has been taken from the book, Marco Polo The
Travels, Ronald Latham has translated the story from the Italian version. Marco
Polo was born 1254 the son of a Venetian merchant. Marco joined his father on a
journey to China in 1271. They spent the next twenty years traveling in the
service of Kubilai Khan. Marco was a prisoner of war in Genoa in 1289 - 1290 and
met Rustichello of Pisa. Together they wrote The Travels; a product of an
observant merchant and a professional romancer. Marco Polo died in 1324 and left
his inheritance to his three daughters. Here is a quote from his book with
regard to Noah's Ark: "In the heart of Greater Armenia is a very high mountain ,
shaped like a cube (or cup), on which Noah's ark is said to have rested, whence
it is called the Mountain of Noah's Ark. It [the mountain] is so broad and long
that it takes more than two days to go around it. On the summit the snow lies so
deep all the year round that no one can ever climb it; this snow never entirely
melts, but new snow is for ever falling on the old, so that the level rises."
Record of
Josephus:
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5.
After this, the ark rested on the top of a certain mountain in Armenia; which,
when Noah understood, he opened it; and seeing a small piece of land about it,
he continued quiet, and conceived some cheerful hopes of deliverance. But a few
days afterward, when the water was decreased to a greater degree, he sent out a
raven, as desirous to learn whether any other part of the earth were left dry by
the water, and whether he might go out of the ark with safety; but the raven,
finding all the land still overflowed, returned to Noah again. And after seven
days he sent out a dove, to know the state of the ground; which came back to him
covered with mud, and bringing an olive branch: hereby Noah learned that the
earth was become clear of the flood. So after he had staid seven more days, he
sent the living creatures out of the ark; and both he and his family went out,
when he also sacrificed to God, and feasted with his companions. However, the
Armenians call this place, (GREEK) (16) The
Place of Descent; for the ark being saved in that place, its remains are shown
there by the inhabitants to this day.
6. Now all the writers of barbarian histories make mention of this flood, and of this ark; among whom is Berosus the Chaldean. For when he is describing the circumstances of the flood, he goes on thus: "It is said there is still some part of this ship in Armenia, at the mountain of the Cordyaeans; and that some people carry off pieces of the bitumen, which they take away, and use chiefly as amulets for the averting of mischiefs." Hieronymus the Egyptian also, who wrote the Phoenician Antiquities, and Mnaseas, and a great many more, make mention of the same. Nay, Nicolaus of Damascus, in his ninety-sixth book, hath a particular relation about them; where he speaks thus: "There is a great mountain in Armenia, over Minyas, called Baris, upon which it is reported that many who fled at the time of the Deluge were saved; and that one who was carried in an ark came on shore upon the top of it; and that the remains of the timber were a great while preserved. This might be the man about whom Moses the legislator of the Jews wrote." Antiquities, Book I.
George Hagopian: (Back to Top)
George
Hagopian has first hand knowledge of the ark. As a young child, he walked along
the Ark's planks with his uncle. Artist, Elfred Lee, drew this picture of the
Ark as directed by George Hagopian. The following excerpt is from Charles
Berlitz, The Lost Ship of Noah , which details the fascinating story.
"He was eight years old, Hagopian said, and it was in the year 1908 [note:
another account says the year was 1905 and Hagopian was 10 years old] when his
uncle took him up Ararat, past Ahora Gorge, passing the grave of St. Jacob on
the way. As the mountain grew more precipitous his uncle carried him on his
shoulders until they came to something that looked like a great ship located on
a rock ledge over a cliff and partially covered by snow. It had flat openings
like windows along the top and a hole in the roof. Hagopian had first thought it
was a house made of stone but when his uncle showed him the outline of planks
and told him it was made of wood he realized it was the Ark, just like the other
people had described it to him. His uncle boosted him up from a rock pile to
reach the Ark roof telling him not to be afraid, "because it is a holy ship ..."
(and) "the animals and people are not here now. They have all gone away."
Hagopian climbed on the roof and knelt down and kissed the surface of the roof
which was flat and easy to stand on.
While they stood alongside the Ark his uncle shot into the side of it but
the bullets bounced off as if it were made of stone. He then tried to cut off a
piece of the wood with a sharp knife and was equally unsuccessful. On this first
visit to the Ark they spent two hours there looking at it and eating some of
their provisions. When Hagopian returned to his village eager to tell the other
boys about his adventure they replied, rather anticlimactically, "Yes, we saw
the Ark too."
Hagopian died in 1972. Since he was unable to read maps with any accuracy
he was unable to pinpoint on a map of the mountain where it was that he had seen
and climbed on the Ark. He consistently told his interrogators that if he could
get back to Mount Ararat he could lead a party to the Ark. Although his
testimony was successfully approved by voice-stress analysis, it is not unusual
that reports such as this , from a single person, even if firsthand, have been
discredited because of lack of corroboratory evidence from others."
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