f the Chaldeans. Marco Polo referred to the Ark as being in greater Armenia and, about 1856, three skeptical British scientists and two Armenian guides supposedly found it but refused to publicize the fact. Years later, one of the guides and one scientist independently reported the finding. In 1876 British scholar Sir James Bryce found 2,000 feet above the timberline on Mount Ararat, a piece of hand-tooled wood, four feet long, which he thought was from the Ark. In 1883, a group of Turkish commissioners came upon the Ark, and described the interior. This was possible because of an unusually warm summer which caused the Ark to project out of the surrounding ice. In 1902, Armenian Georgie Hagopian and his uncle ex!amined the Ark. In 1972, shortly before his death, he tape-recorded a detailed testimony. Several Russians and Turks have reported seeing it and, in 1943, American soldier Ed Davis was stationed in Iran, and he saw it. He reports that Lourd tribesmen protect it and have removed cage doors and other items from it. George Greene, a geologist, took photos of the two parts of the Ark (it was broken into two main pieces) in 1954 from a helicopter. U-2 pilots in the late 1950's have seen it. In 1973 a Turkish soldier took Ed Behling to a ledge that over looked the Ark. All of the sight accounts describe the same size and dimensions, and several TV documentaries have shown aerial photographs(Shockey, 1986). To date, the major impediment to scientific exploration is that Turkey is vehemently non-Christian, and they refuse to let Westerners into the area, nor do they care about climbing a 15,000 foot ice-covered mountain themselves. Dr. Walter Brown(1989), who holds a Ph.D. In !Engineering from M.I.T.,says there are many earth features whose origin is controversial and involves numerous hypotheses and unexplainable aspects. "Each of these features appear to be best explained as direct consequences of a cataclysmic flood, wh...
