Andrew Jones, who runs Noah’s Ark Scans, has been working at and investigating the Durupinar boat-shaped formation in eastern Turkey near Mount Ararat—a 157-meter-long, ship-like structure that closely matches the biblical description of Noah’s Ark in Genesis 6. Using cutting-edge GPR, ERT, LiDAR, and core drilling, his team is exploring what lies beneath the surface. In 2020, a drone photograph was overlaid with Ground Penetrating Radar scan results, revealing internal structures and right angles about 7 meters below the surface, along with soil chemistry results indicating roughly three times more organic material inside the formation than outside. As recently as 2024, a reconstruction of Noah’s Ark based on the latest GPR analysis has suggested chambers consistent with animal enclosures. Whether this is the actual resting place of the Ark remains uncertain, and time and further evidence will be needed to know for sure, but the site does appear to align with the biblical account in Genesis, which states that the Ark came to rest in this region.
structures and right angles 7 meters below the surface.
The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down, and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
