In Search of the Lost Mountains of Noah: The Discovery of the Real Mts. of Ararat [Hardcover]

Robert Cornuke (Author), David Halbrook (Author)

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Publication Date: September 2001

For the past several decades, the search for Noah’s Ark—or at least for the place where the Ark most likely came to rest—has heated up considerably as modern developments in technology have added fuel to the fire. Yet for all the efforts thrown at Mt. Ararat in southeastern Turkey, nothing of significance pointing to the existence of the Ark of Noah has been discovered. Fifteen years ago, Bob Cornuke first began to question the foundational assumptions of the actual location of the biblical mountains of Ararat and began to uncover evidence that the Zagros Mountains in present-day northern Iran are the real lost mountains of Noah and perhaps hold the ruins of Noah’s Ark. This book is for all readers who enjoy mystery, adventure, and archaeological apologetics based on physical evidence.

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For centuries, dedicated Bible students have believed that Noah's ark came to rest on Mt. Ararat in Turkey. After several fruitless attempts to discover the remains of the sacred ark, Cornuke, intrepid explorer, biblical archaeologist, and author of the best-selling In Search of the Mountain of God, began researching alternative sites. Eventually convinced by scriptural evidence and detailed terrain maps that the ark actually landed in the Zagros Mountains in Iran, he launched an expedition to prove his controversial theory. Although the ark was never recovered, Cornuke and his team remain confident that it does exist somewhere on the vast, unexplored peaks and gorges of Mt. Sabalon in Iran. This intriguing adventure tale will appeal to skeptics and believers alike. Margaret Flanagan
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About the Author

He is an international adventurer and explorer who has appeared on the CBS television special “Ancient Secrets of the Bible” and “Dateline NBC.” He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. David Halbrook is an award-winning writer and a 1991 Pulitzer Prize Nominee. He resides in Longmont, Colorado.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers; 1St Edition edition (September 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805420541
• ISBN-13: 978-0805420548
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,497,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, January 19, 2004

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This review is from: In Search of the Lost Mountains of Noah: The Discovery of the Real Mts. of Ararat (Hardcover)

This book ranks among the best adventure books I've read. It has the same thrilling writing quality as
Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

The incredible adventure starts with a story by Ed Davis of his first hand visual experience seeing the Ark.

They arrive at a village with mud and rock adobe living spaces. Davis sees hand-carved latches and lock pins, ancient oil lamps, clay vats, bowls, jars, and crude tools and what appear to be prehistoric farm implements. Davis sees a three-foot-tall cage that appears to be petrified with vertical bars made of twisted branches that are hard as a rock.

The ark could was embedded in a glacier and could only be seen during certain warm years.

Davis notices a peculiar vineyard built around a remote village. The village is called, "Where Noah Planted the Vine".

Davis' journey will traverse three caves enroute to Doomsday rock. The first cave is located in a maze of low ravines deep in the foothills. They follow a path called the "Back Door" to the second cave. This was hostile territory, and they were on constant watch for Russian soldiers. The path is treacherous with hairpin switchbacks along the razor edge of a sheer cliff. They arrive at the second cave. There is a strong smell of sulfur present. They must be "roped together to scale an increasingly chaotic tangle of narrow ledges, steep ridges, and high cliffs". There are Russians stationed below. They reach the third cave hidden in a snow bank. In each cave, a mysterious chef has prepared a meal of goulash for them. Davis sees beautifully etched paintings of lions and other animals. They climb up a jagged moraine called the Doomsday rock - "a great, bulbous outcropping, dropping off on one side into a mile-deep chasm."

Davis sees a horseshoe gorge. Davis sees "rocks, ice, and mountainside melding as one in the deep gorge" rendering everything into an inky black. Then Davis sees the ark, "A huge, rectangular structure lying on its side, like a battleship stuck on a sandbar." Davis exclaims, "Its enormous!"

"Davis blinked his eyes, then realized he was looking into the craft, its dark, yawning maw easily stretching one hundred feet into the cleft of the ice. Twisted, gnarled timbers, splintered up and out where the hull had split apart, framed the hole."

Davis could see, a half-mile from the main section, another massive structure settled in among the boulders, its timbers ripped and protruding to one end, exactly as the first.

Davis gazes deeper into the cross-section cutaway of the main hull and sees 1. three distinct floors 2. frail-looking partitions and walkways 3. on top, a raised roof that ran the better length of the structure.

Davis creates a map of his journey, and in 1999, Team Iran is assembled. I won't share the adventures leading up to team Iran, read the book. Dan Toth, Dan Holbrook, Darrel Scott, Todd Phillips, Larry Williams, Bob Cornuke, and Dick Bright attempt to find the Ark using a five day visa. They believe they know the exact location of the Ark and attempt to be the second group witnessing the structure. The location is Mount Sabalon in Iran instead of Mount Ararat in Iraq. They discover, Urartu, original location was in Iran and later moved. They discover an ancient myth claiming the name of the mountain was "Noah's Mountain". Their hopes are running high. They are racing against time, Dan Toth is using GPS and Russian maps; under pressure, they get lost and don't start up the right trail until after hiring local guides. They don't use GPS and the maps and rely on the local guides; the mission looked to be in jeopardy. The guides take them back to a fork in the road and follow a "road by a river". They ascend to 11,000 feet. They see what they believe was the Doomsday rock spoken by Davis. They believe the gorge is two or three miles away. Toth identifies the gorge as "Davis Canyon," and there is no Ark. They leave realizing that time is up. The book ends and it needs to continue.

I think the Ark was higher up on the mountain based on Davis Account. I hope they try again.

5.0 out of 5 stars Historically Compelling, May 2, 2009

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This review is from: In Search of the Lost Mountains of Noah: The Discovery of the Real Mts. of Ararat (Hardcover)

I have read several of Bob Cornuke's books. He does his research and writes a very exciting story. You won't be disappointed. Enjoy!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining Reading, December 9, 2007

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This review is from: In Search of the Lost Mountains of Noah: The Discovery of the Real Mts. of Ararat (Hardcover)

I enjoyed every page of the book. If anyone ever finds the remains of Noah's Ark, it will be Robert Cornuke. Maybe he shoudl expand his search though. I recently read another book that suggests there may have been more than one ark, that Noah and Noah's children built an ark on each continent. Noah's Ark, Discovering the Science of Man's Oldest Mystery. Since there are cultures with flood myths on every continent, perhaps the Old Testament version is the only written record of Noah's Ark, while the oral stories told by others is all that is left to document the other arks of Noah.