# So, Has NOAH's ARK Been Found? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 20, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488 "2006-06-20T21:54:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/141 "2026-10-09T18:55:01Z")
I think “ARK II” on a plank in the appropriate language will do just nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/142 "2026-10-09T19:05:13Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Would there have been a nearby source of good lumber _besides_ the ark? Just speculating. I couldn’t but google Home Depot in Iraq. They don’t have them,[but there is this.](https://www.facebook.com/AlmahdiWood) All imported lumber of course. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/143 "2026-10-09T20:51:35Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > You mean Iraq? Sure, there’s no trees _now_, not after Noah cut them all down to build the ark! ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/144 "2026-10-09T21:23:58Z")
Well played. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/145 "2026-10-09T21:43:02Z")
Are you kidding? I got a prepublication Advanced Reading Copy. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/146 "2026-10-09T22:39:09Z")
Musta been pretty shittim wood, I have to say. ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/147 "2026-10-09T22:59:43Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > That name looks like something in the background of early AI. Noah’s ark was far from the only one. Apart from Utnapishtim, there were Deucalion, Atra-Hasis, Ziusudra, Xisuthrus, Nuh, Manu, and others with no name recorded; a veritable flotilla. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/148 "2026-10-10T00:27:55Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I personally would find it hilarious if someone found a boat on top of a mountain with a plaque reading “Nebuchadnezzar, my ship”. Arky McArkface ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/149 "2026-10-10T01:03:11Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Are you kidding? I got a prepublication Advanced Reading Copy. Off [Tigris.com](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Mosul_river.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=index&utm_content=original) no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/150 "2026-10-10T01:11:36Z")
No wonder the civilization went extinct. They didn’t make their URL secure. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/151 "2026-10-10T01:21:23Z")
“Orca” ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/152 "2026-10-10T01:50:43Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Floods are big and scary. Any culture that’s ever seen a flood probably has myths about them. This is what i believe. > [@Chronos](#): > > One person saving the fauna of the entire world from a flood by taking a pair of every animal on a ship is, of course, completely implausible. But one person saving his immediate family and a few of their more valuable livestock from a smaller but still locally-devastating flood by taking them on a ship, and then the tale growing in the telling among his descendants, is just maybe plausible. Sure. Or maybe he just happened to be up in the hills that day, but made up a story. > [@SCAdian](#): > > Where is the part that defines “clean” and “unclean” animals, and how much later than Genesis was it written? Probably both Leviticus and Deuteronomy, if i had to guess. And they were almost certainly written before Genesis was finalized. Although, it’s funny that God told Noah to pack more clean animals, because Noah wasn’t bound by the laws of ritual cleanliness. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/153 "2026-10-10T02:47:53Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Or, since this god is allegedly omniscient why make unfaithful beings in the first place? Because people nearly always make “God” into a regular human being with insanely super powers. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/154 "2026-10-10T03:59:10Z")
Or “Notice - this is not the Ark” ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/155 "2026-10-10T04:17:52Z")
Nah, the label would something like ARK™ length: 300 cubits width: 50 cubits height: 30 cubits manufactured by the ACME Corporation. Warning: in case of deluge, not suitable for transporting livestock. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/156 "2026-10-10T07:22:13Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > No wonder the civilization went extinct. They didn’t make their URL secure. No one was supposed to click that link. I should have disabled it. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/157 "2026-10-10T08:14:25Z")
It was a dead link, but I edited it to point to something safe just in case. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/158 "2026-10-10T12:55:28Z")
They meant radioactive isotope decay dating in some similar method to C14 dating. **Uranium-Lead (U–Pb) , Rubidium-Strontium (Rb–Sr), Samarium-Neodymium (Sm–Nd), and Potassium-Argon (K–Ar), and Helium in Apatite** ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/159 "2026-10-10T13:00:30Z")
And God said to Noah “you’re gonna need a bigger boat” ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488/160 "2026-10-10T14:10:08Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Because people nearly always make “God” into a regular human being with insanely super powers. Also with very questionable mental health. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-has-noahs-ark-been-found/361488.md?page=9)