Researchers recover wood fragments 30 feet beneath the Durupinar Formation in eastern Turkey
Core samples retrieved from the boat-shaped site near Mount Ararat have been submitted for laboratory analysis.
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A research team investigating the Durupinar formation in eastern Turkey extracted wood fragments from a drill core taken 30 feet below the surface.
Initial images of the artifact were shared on X by researcher Jimmy Corsetti, based on updates provided by Lauren Witzke of the Noah's Ark Scans project. The samples were collected during subsurface drilling operations and sent to a laboratory for testing.
The site is located in Ağrı Province, near the Iranian border, within the region historically recognized as the mountains of Ararat. Genesis 8:4 states that the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.
