Ehhhh…I’d still mount her, but I think she is slightly less than 4800 years old.
So was there like any fossilized poop?
It’s an-ark-y!
BTW it is meant to be “135 meters long (300 cubits), 22.5 meters wide (50 cubits), and 13.5 meters high (30 cubits). That’s 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high”
http://www.creationtips.com/arksize.html
I should point out that this gentleman is the sort who feels mainstream archeology is not biblical enough. He is, however, apparently connected to this expedition somehow, as a fellow traveller, and is now revealing it as a hoax.
From the Sheiser blog:
From my first post upthread:
Called it.
Which, of course, poses an obvious question: Why did they bother?
Just speculating, but if they’re following the Ron Wyatt model, the goal is to make money by telling hopeful believers that they’re onto something big, and just need a little more money to complete their research. Leaking a press release and provocative pictures helps create the illusion of legitimacy (notice that they wouldn’t reveal the location in the press release, and said nothing that could be immediately falsified by anyone without examining what they said they had found. There is even some superficially defensible truth in their claim that the wood was old, and that they had “found” it at aprticular elevation. They just leave out the part that they brought it up there themselves, then “discovered” it) while they pretend that they’re doing more “work.” They string it out indefinitely, banking the profits in some other country, until the money dries up, or the hoax is revealed.
It looks like the cat was lt out of the bag well before they intended it to be.
Right! :rolleyes:*
Whats a cubit?
*
CMC fnord!
“Hi, we’d like to purchase permits to climb Mount Ararat so we can look for the Ark.”
“Yes, I sell you permits. Permits are for Mount Bastam. Not Ararat. Bastam much better. Find more Arks there. Bastam very very good. You pay cash.”
Ok, so here’s the drill. We’re going to dig up enough fossilized trees to build an entire, full scale Ark.
Then we’ll fill it with dinosaur fossils, trilobites and the hobbit skeletons.
Then we’ll partially bury it on the next mountain over from Ararat.
I always assumed it was a requirement for Ark discoverers to plant a new false Ark somewhere on the mountain for the next expedition to find.
Sort of a variation of geocaching for nutjobs.
I think the linked blog gives a clue:
That would be fun! Where do I send the check? 
Throw in some ‘crop circles’ on the glaciers and I’m in!
Is there a graffiti of people treading water in it? (And damn you for stealing my post!)
O gosh!
I just read that as 4800 year old LAY!
It’s beginning to sound a lot like Noah’s Ark Expeditions are the evangelical Christian version of Nigerian Mail Fraud…
There are sincere (if misguided) expeditions, but these kinds of swindles are definitely an industry, and not just with Noah’s Ark either, but they string people along (and bleed them for “funding”) with promises of other sensational finds as well. Ron Wyatt was kind of the king of thes Biblical archaeology scams. He also calimed to have found Noah’s Ark, chariot wheels in the Red Sea from the Pharaoh’s pursuing army (complete with murky photographs of what appear to be wheels underwater), the true cross and (my personal favorite) claimed to have had the Ark of the Covenant in his basement, but, damn the luck, the “power” from the Ark would not allow clear photographs, only blurry flashes of light.
It’s always a long con with just a little more work needed, and a grand, world-shaking revelation just around the corner, only they need just a tiny bit more funding first…
Reminds me of the nuns from Monty Python’s Holy Grail with the holy grail shaped beacon on their castle.