The Deluge and the Ark Seekers
Historical Blindness
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Noah's Ark
There have been numerous real expeditions to ararat in search of noah's ark. In 18 29, friedrich parrot claimed armenians believed the ark was atop the summit and conveniently prevented anyone from getting near it out of a sense of respect for the artifact. In 19 55, french adventurer fernand navarre scaled the mountain and brought back a piece, not of gopher wood, but of oak. Afterward, he claimed to have had an expert in cairo date the wood to between four thousand and six thousand years old. But his piece of wood has since been carbon dated to around the seventh or eighth century c e.
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