THE DELUGE

 

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 years.

 

NOTE: It is clear that somehow obtained the age of findings coincides with the Biblical chronology.