Now..as i went to my dear sister NAtasya..i found an article which i`ve been searching all these days..complete story about the great legend of Noah`s Ark..Now, unfortunately..the founder of the ship was not a mUslim...I think,, we should do more in proving the Sign`s and Science untold....unseen in our Holy-Quran..Hopely,this article will give us strength and greater faith in Islam..~~
LONDON -- Noah's Ark has been found on the Turkish-Iranian border, 32 kilometres from Mount Ararat, according to the leader of a team of scientists that has been investigating the site for six years.
The Turkish government is so convinced by the findings that, after years of intransigence, it has designated the site one of special archaeological interest and agreed to its excavation next summer.
The remote site contains a buried, ship-like object, resting an altitude of 2,300 metres. At 170 metres long and 45 metres wide, it conforms almost exactly to the 300 cubit by 50 cubit boat that God told Noah to build, according to to hte Genesis 6 in the Bible.
On surrounding terrain, the American and Middle Eastern scientists have identified huge stones with holes carved at one end, which they believe are "drogue-stones," dragged behind ships in the ancient world to stabilise them. Radar soundings indicate unusual levels of iron-oxide distribution.
Salih Bayraktutan, head of geology at Turkey's Ataturk University, estimates the age of the 'vessel' at more than 100,000 years. "It is a man-made structure and for sure it is Noah's Ark." The site is directly below the mountain of Al Judi, named in the Koran as the Ark's resting place.
David Fasold, an American shipwreck specialist with no religious affiliation, has led the investigation. He says subsurface radar surveys of the site have produced "very good pictures." "The radar imagery at about 25 metres down from the stern is so clear that you can count the floorboards between the walls."
He believes the team has found the fossilised remains of the upper deck and that the original reed substructure has disappeared. But the findings have infuriated the scores of Christian Ark-hunters who travel to Turkey, convinced the Ark will only be found on Mount Ararat.
Fasold, who calls himself an "Arkologist," also argues that it was not a great flood that pushed the Ark into the mountains. He says it was "an astronomical event causing a tectonic upheaval, a tidal bore causing gravitational pull in the ocean waters that forced the boat into the mountains."
Some of Fasold's team of geophysicists and geologists are reserving final judgement until the excavation and carbon-dating. But in a British TV series on the environment next month, team member Vendyl Jones, a Middle East archaeologist and inspiration for film character Indiana Jones, says it is "between maybe and probably" that they have found Noah's Ark.
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(THE OBSERVER NEWSPAPER A6 JANUARY 1994-by martin wroe)
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with this, i also would like to state some of verses of noble al Quran stating about prophet Nuh (Noah) as and about his ark..
[54:9] Before them the people of Nuh rejected, so they rejected Our servant and called (him) mad, and he was driven away.
[54:10] Therefore he called upon his Lord: I am overcome, come Thou then to help.
[54:11] So We opened the gates of the cloud with water pouring
[54:12] And We made water to flow forth in the land in springs, so the water gathered together according to a measure already ordained.
[54:13] And We bore him on that which was made of planks and nails
[54:14] Sailing, before Our eyes, a reward for him who was denied.
[54:15] And certainly We left it as a sign (for all time): then is there any that will receive admonition?
[11:44]When the word went forth: "O earth! swallow up thy water and O sky! withhold (thy rain)!" and the water abated and the matter was ended. The Ark rested on Mount Judi and the word went forth: "Away with those who do wrong!"
[11:49]
Such are some of the stories of the Unseen w
hich We have revealed unto you: before this neither you nor your people knew them. So persevere patiently: for the end is for those who are righteous.
renung2kan kejadian alam..~~
