Good news for the Turkish economy

Puyallup man leading long quest for Noah's Ark

Sigh. Leaving aside that the Ark certainly never existed (it's a version of a much older Mesopotamian fable), "Mount Ararat" is a mistranslation. The Bible says that the ark landed in "the Mountains", plural, of Ararat, the Hebrew name for the region in southwestern Turkey and northern Syria once called Urartu. There was no "Mount Ararat" at the time the Bible was written; that's a later (classical, I believe) idea. That's not to say that there's not a wooden object on a mountain in Turkey, but if there is it certainly was built in Christian times.

NB: I typed "Arafat" instead of "Ararat" three times. Oops, make it four.