Very few reputable news services have picked up the story I reported yesterday. A team of explorers led by Yeung Wing-cheung, claims to have discovered the remnant of Noah's ark on Mt. Ararat in Turkey. Yeung is a documentary filmmaker and member of the team from Hong Kong-based Noah's Ark Ministries International. He said: "It's not 100 per cent that it is Noah's Ark but we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it."
Hm. Wow. That's quite a claim.
London's Daily Mail reports the skeptical response of a lecturer in Ancient History at Oxford University. "The usual nonsense," he said.
The Daily Mail goes on to say that there have been numerous hoaxes over the search for the ark. In 1993, George Jammal claimed in a program shown by CBS that he had 'sacred wood' from the ark.
It was later revealed that he was an actor and that the wood was in fact taken from Californian railroad tracks which had been baked in an oven with various sauces.
One difference about this expedition, however, is that the Turkish government actually endorsed the group. Time will tell what this discovery actually is.
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