When
we hear about the global flood, then almost immediately remember the Bible and
the story of Noah's Ark. It's a great old story went around the world together
with Christianity. But although it is the most famous of the legends of the
flood, it is by no means the only one. Many nationalities, there are legends
about giant and catastrophic flooding. The Greeks tell the story of the flood
and tied her with Dequalion. Long before Columbus set of legends, the accepted
wisdom among the natives of America, kept alive the memory of the great flood.
In Australia, India, Polynesia, Tibet, Kashmir and Lithuania of the flood
stories passed down from generation to generation until today.
Countless
attempts to solve the riddle of the flood had left long before because
scientists of previous generations have not achieved concrete results. Already
for a long time it seemed that the solution of this mystery lies in the depths
of time, where people never get ...
The
deluge was the only possible explanation for the appearance of a large deposits
of silt under the Hill in UR, which so clearly divided into two epochs. At the
foot of the ancient Sumerians, Tower near Cheers on the lower Euphrates, anyone
could descend into a narrow shaft and touch the remains of a giant catastrophic
flood. To count age stratum, which has maintained traces of human settlements
can be set, when there was a great flood.
This
event had broad international implications, which explains the persistence of
the legend of the flood of many peoples.
Mount
Ararat is located in Eastern Turkey, near the border with Iran and Russia. The
snow peak reaches a height of 5165 m. In the last century, many years before
the shovels of archaeologists digging up the land of Mesopotamia, the first
expedition to Mount Ararat. This was the story of the Shepherd.
At
the foot of Mount Ararat lies a small Armenian village whose inhabitants,
Bayazit held from generation to generation pass on the story of a remarkable
event, with mountain Shepherd. The Shepherd said that he once saw on the Hill a
huge wooden ship. Report of the Turkish expedition, apparently confirmed the
story, since it refers to the wooden bow of a ship, who was peeping in the
summer from the glacier on the South side of the mountain.
During
the first world war, the Russian officer, Aviator Roskovitskij, said he noticed
from his airplane on the southern slope of Mount Ararat "remnants of the
broken vessel of decent size. While the war was still raging, Tsar Nicholas II
immediately sent a search party of Ararat. We hoped that the ship will be able
to take a picture. However, all reports on this expedition are gone (presumably
during the Revolution).
During
the second world war happened several more cases like this - with a Russian
pilot and four American pilots. These are the latest reports were submitted for
study of American historian and missionary doctor Aaron Smith of Greensboro, a
specialist in the study of the flood. As a result of years of labour he has
collected all the bibliography on Noah's Ark. In the collection of Dr. Smith
was 80 thousand works of the flood on the 72 languages, of which 70 thousand
refers to the remains of the legendary Ark.
In
the early morning hours of July 6, 1955 year Frenchman Fernando Navarra, in
charge of the search for the most famous ship in history, to his very great
surprise, was lucky: he has found and walked away with three pieces of timber, frozen into a block of ice at the top of the
mountain. A fallen log. 4484.
NOTE: It is clear that
somehow obtained the age of findings coincides with the Biblical chronology.
