Exploring the Durupinar Formation

Right behind me is Mount Ararat. Here in this

beautiful backdrop is where the Durupinar formation is.

This is the site where Noah's Ark came to rest.

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

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.

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?