Team searching for Noah’s Ark builds 3D model of Turkish mound

By Dean Murray

A team investigating a site it believes may be the location of Noah's Ark has created a 3D-printed model of the area.

The Noah's Ark Scans team started drilling last month at the Durupınar formation, a boat-shaped mound in eastern Turkey, located 29 kilometers south of Mount Ararat.

They said the formation is a 157-meter-long ship structure "that perfectly matches the biblical description of Noah's Ark found in Genesis 6."

The team enlisted architectural mapping company FieldTech to create the scale model "of the Ark as it currently rests," based on ground-penetrating radar data taken at the site.

FieldTech said in a social media post: "The red bubbles represents the voids below ground, which were determined with geophysical analysis."

They added: "We represent only scientific outputs here, which are only precise topography that we scanned, and geophysical results."

Researchers have finished phase one of their field investigation, which included drilling more than 60 ft beneath the site. Samples collected will undergo laboratory analysis.

Andrew Jones, vice president of the Noah's Ark Research Project, told Fox News: "That's what we'll be testing this winter. Just to see if we can find any type of man-made activity or something that suggests decayed wood."

Lauren Witzke, director of marketing and fundraising for the team, said last month she believed potential findings could disprove evolution.

Posting from the Durupınar site on September 22, she wrote: "Core drilling has begun and the Big Bang Evolutionists are already on damage control mode.

"When we are done, University curriculums will need to be re-written, and Darwinism will be dismantled. This is the place where creation began anew."

However, many geologists maintain that the formation is a natural geological feature rather than the remains of a vessel.