noah's ark

A team of archaeologists on Mount Ararat claim to have discovered what they believe to be the fossilised remains of Noah's Ark. Carbon dating puts the vessel at nearly 5000 years old which matches the Bible version of events.

"It's not 100 percent that it is Noah's Ark but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it," Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker and member of the 15-strong team from Noah's Ark Ministries International told Agence France-Presse.

According to the report which provided no photos and few details, the team says it recovered wooden specimens from a structure on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey at an altitude of 13,000 feet, and that carbon dating suggested it was 4,800 years old.

Yeung indicated there were several compartments inside, some with wooden beams, that could have housed animals.