A 3,000-year-old map has finally told scientists where to locate Noah’s Ark.
After years of study,
the world’s oldest map has been deciphered, and scientists believe it reveals
the final resting place of Noah’s Ark.
The Imago Mundi is a
Babylonian clay tablet featuring a writing system using wedge-shaped symbols
(cuneiform) to describe how the world was created, according to the Christians.
Researchers have done a deeper analysis to decipher the map and discover biblical
references.
The back of the tablet
describes what a traveler will see on the journey to a ‘parsiktu vessel’.
‘Parsiktu’ is a word that explains the size of a boat that would be needed to
survive the Great Flood. Following the instructions, researchers found a path to
‘Urartu’ where an ancient Mesopotamian poem says a man and his family landed an
ark. ‘Urartu’ is the Assyrian equivalent of ‘Ararat’, which is the Hebrew word
for the mountain where Noah’s ark crashed.
It seems that from the
Babylonian point of view, the story of the ark was a matter-of-fact thing, and
if you went on this journey, you would find the remnants of this historic boat.
The Imago Mundi was
found in what is now Iraq in 1882. Its cuneiform text was only used by the
Babylonians. They also etched a map of what seems to show the entire known
world at the time the tablet was made. On the map, Mesopotamia sits at the
bottom center, enclosed by a circle that represents a ‘bitter river’ that was
believed to surround the entire world.
The tablet has been
damaged, but at one time, it featured 8 triangles that signified mountains
described on the back.
The ‘parsiktu’
measurement is only known from one other cuneiform tablet. It basically
describes the Ark that was built, theoretically, by the Babylonian version of
Noah. While the Imago Mundi is dated to 3,000-years-ago, the biblical great
flood supposedly happened about 5,000-years-ago.
In the Bible, the ark
settled on the ‘mountains of Ararat’ in Turkey following a 150-day flood. The
ark measured ‘300 cubits, 50 cubits, by 30 cubits’, which translates to 515
feet long, 86 feet wide, and 52 feet high.
A team has been
excavating the mountain in question for years. In 2023, they found clay, marine
materials, and seafood, which placed humans at the scene between 3,000 and
5,000 years ago.
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