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Is it the Ark?
High in the mountains of northwestern Iran, a Christian archaeology expedition has discovered a rock formation that its members say resembles the fabled Noah's ark. The team discovered the prominent boat-shaped rocks at just over 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) on Mount Suleiman in Iran's Elburz mountain range. "It looks uncannily like wood," said Robert Cornuke, president of the Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration Institute (BASE), the Palmer Lake, Colorado-based group that launched the expedition. Photos taken by BASE members show a prow-shaped rock outcrop, which the team says resembles petrified wood, emerging from a ridge. The BASE team has uncovered evidence of an ancient shrine near the outcrop, suggesting that this was an important place to people in the past. "We can't claim to have conclusively found the ark, but it does look like the object that the ancients talked about," Cornuke said. The story of Noah's ark is told in three major world religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
COMPLIED BY ROHINI RAMAKRISHNAN
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