The original location of Noah's Ark may have been confirmed by relic hunters in the remote mountains. Experts claim they have taken underground images of a mysterious ship-shaped object discovered half a century ago in eastern Turkey.
They have long claimed that Noah's legendary boat was buried under a rocky place, known as the Durupinar site. But not everyone believes this. Geologists claim the mountain bumps are just an unusual mountain formation.
Now, a documentary crew led by longtime ark hunter Cem Sertesen say they have imagined whatever lies below, according to Turkey's Anadolu Agency.
Quoted from Fox News, the team claims they will reveal the images obtained by sending electrical signals underground via cables.
"This is a real picture of Noah's Ark," said Sertesen, who previously released a documentary about finding the ark in 2017.
"They are not fake or simulated. They show the whole ship buried underground," he said.
According to the story, Noah loaded two of each animal into a 150-meter-long ark to save them from a great flood. In the Book of Genesis, it is stated that the mountains of Ararat, in what is now eastern Turkey, were the region where Noah's Ark stopped after the great flood hit.
Although many expeditions attempted to find the ark across vast mountains, no physical evidence has emerged. The main focus of many searches is the Durupinar site which stretches for 150 meters between the mountains.
Some opinions claim the strange object is the remains of Noah's ship buried deep underground, while scientists argue it is a natural formation.
Now, 3D object scanning is trying to prove it. The scan was created by computer engineer and archaeologist Andrew Jones, as well as geophysicist John Larsen, in an attempt to study the strange object.
Jones and Larsen shared their findings with Sertesen, director of the 2017 documentary "Noah's Ark". Sertesen admits that the image is not necessarily from Noah's Ark, and could be from another ship entirely.
"It's a ship, but it's too early to call it Noah's Ark," he said.
The ship-shaped site was discovered in 1959 by Captain Ilhan Durupinar, an expert cartographer. The first scientific study of the formation was carried out 26 years later, with the researchers concluding that "it is very likely that the underground formation was a ship."