# Durupinar Formation: Investigating the Noah’s Ark Claim

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2102748081003327792
- Source account: [@noahsarkscans](https://x.com/noahsarkscans)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:56
- Published: 2026-09-24
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8rCcWNdIfuVu/en/durupinar-formation-investigating-the-noah-s-ark-claim

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8rCcWNdIfuVu/en/durupinar-formation-investigating-the-noah-s-ark-claim) Right behind me is Mount Ararat. Here in this beautiful backdrop is where the Durupinar formation is.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8rCcWNdIfuVu/en/durupinar-formation-investigating-the-noah-s-ark-claim?t=7) This is the site where Noah's Ark came to rest.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8rCcWNdIfuVu/en/durupinar-formation-investigating-the-noah-s-ark-claim?t=11) This region became one of the great ancient travel corridors connecting the East to the West. The Silk Road traveled through here. For centuries, pilgrims and travelers passed through this region, and there are ancient accounts that some of those pilgrims stopped right here. There are legends that these pilgrims even

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8rCcWNdIfuVu/en/durupinar-formation-investigating-the-noah-s-ark-claim?t=31) picked off pieces of wood from the ark and kept them as sacred relics. You can see some of these bits of wood in churches today.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/8rCcWNdIfuVu/en/durupinar-formation-investigating-the-noah-s-ark-claim?t=38) And right now, we have a huge team of researchers on the ark. They're doing core drilling, soil samples, radar scans, all to find out what is really underneath this site, and is it really Noah's Ark?