Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.

• About the title: Finding Noah’s Ark is both Archeology and Arkheology.

Below: A Chart of the Signs of the Covenants

Noah and His Sons

Genesis 9:¹⁸ Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham was the father of Canaan.

• The sons of Canaan became the Canaanites. This is the land God will give to the Hebrews.

Genesis 9:¹⁹ These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.

• Japheth, the father of the nations of Europe which spread from Turkey and Russia.
• Ham, the father of the Africans, Babylonians, Canaanites, and those who descended from the giants.
• Shem, the father of the Arabs and the Jews.

Genesis 9:²⁰ And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.

• A personal experience happened to me as I was studying the story of Noah. I could have labeled it “Ripley’s believe it or not”: I had an urge to do a search after wondering, could there exist a “city of eight”around the ark after studying (Noah, his wife, his three sons and his sons wives. Sure enough, the following appeared (I was ecstatic):
  
  There is a village on Mount Ararat called “Arzep” meaning The Place of Eight. Around the village are huge anchor stones for a large ancient boat with deteriorating remains, its dimensions match the biblical measurements given about Noah’s ark in the Bible.
  
  Dr. Friedrich Parrot ascended mount Ararat in 1829, over 500 years after Marco Polo recorded his sighting of the mountain. While Dr. Parrot did not attempt to dig up the ark, he did, however, document how the locals felt about the legend of Noah’s ark.
  “All the Armenians are firmly persuaded that Noah’s Ark remains to this very day on the top of Ararat, and that, in order to preserve it, no human being is allowed to approach it,” he said.
  
  In April 2010, Man-Fai Yuen, a NAMI researcher, said that he and the search team had actually entered a wooden structure high on Ararat and went on to describe the varying sizes of spaces within the structure. The researcher also claims that carbon dating puts the wood at ~4,800 years old. This would put the flood at ~2,790 BC.

See BC Timeline, scroll to 2344 BC.

The BC Timeline puts the date of the flood at 2344 BC according to Biblical genealogies.

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