A team searching for the remains of Noah’s Ark in a boat-shaped formation in Turkey said they have not identified any material in the 515-foot structure as wood. The international group of archaeologists, geologists and soil scientists started drilling into the famous Durupınar Formation with its Gopher drone, an “underground robot built to go where a person cannot," last week collecting its core samples. Preliminary radar data do not show “a simple homogeneous solid-rock signature,” Andrew Jones, founder of Noah’s Ark Scans, said at the time.
His U.S.-based group is working with Bakhtar Research and Engineering LLC, whose scientist, Dr. Khosrow Bakhtar, led the radar survey. These current findings challenge claims that this is simply a natural shape made of limestone or bedrock.” Now he has told Newsweek "we have not identified any material as ancient wood or established its age," because "no laboratory results are in yet." “In one hole inside the formation, at about 4–5 meters, the drill bit broke on a hard layer," he said.
"We do not yet know what it was. Petrified or heavily mineralized wood is one possibility we want tested; a hard rock block within the surrounding debris is another." “When I said in our release that these layers could be the decayed top-tier remains of the Ark, I was describing the hypothesis we are testing, not a finding," he added. This is a developing story - more to follow.
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