Curious Story
CCORDING to what I heard in a recent ZB programme in the series, This Actually Happened, Noah’s famous Ark is still in existence, perched somewhere on the top of Mt, Ararat. More than a dozen people, at different times, singly and in groups, have (so it was said) actually seen it-an enormous ship lodged in the ice. One group of intrepid climbers got inside the Ark, it seems,» and found-guess what?--yes, cages suitable for holding wild animals! One expert identified the planks of the Ark as genuine. gopher-wood, according to tradition (lucky the party of explorers just happened to have a gopher-wood expert along with them, wasn’t it?) It was pointed out, too, that all sorts of things do get lodged in glaciers and are practically embalmed for a _ thousand years or more; -still, if there was an authentic Deluge, I suppose scientists will place its approximate date some time earlier than a thousand years ago. It isa curious story, and the possibility that there really is something up there on top of Ararat is a fascinating one. But as for its being the.one and only ‘genuine Noah’s Ark-well, what do YOU think?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 421, 18 July 1947, Page 10
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195Curious Story New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 421, 18 July 1947, Page 10
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