Wow, that's alot of back posts to read through. I hope all the contributors to this thread will forgive me if I am a bit lazy and do not go over every post, or if the following has been said.
There have been many expeditions up Mt.Ararat, ground expeditions and aerial surveillance photos never found anything conclusive. In one expedition wooden fragments were found, but were later dated to a more recent period. Knowing that alot of people disagree with current methods of dating materials that in itself isn't much incentive to believe it wasn't from the ark.
However when nothing was found on the surface two seperate teams went back to the mountain and used ground penetrating radar to search for anything below the ice, they found nothing.
Access to the mountain and it's air space has been revoked, so if something is there it will not be found.
All of the expeditions and many of the better photos were all featured in a television special which aired on the Discovery Channel. Here's a link I dug up though on the subject of the expeditions,
Noah's Ark Search - Mount Ararat.
Currently a man named Ron Wyatt has claimed to have discovered Noah's Ark(and claims the construction of it used aluminum as well as wood), Mt.Sinai, The Ark of the Covenant, and Sodom and Gamorrah. He even has an amusing theory on how the Egyptian Pyramids were created using machines simply because he could build one using modern knowledge and materials in his backyard.
It probably comes as no surprise that everything on his webpage associated with these "discoveries", including newsletters cost money.
This message has been edited by AlgolagniaVolcae, 03-08-2006 11:01 AM
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