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A Puyallup Biblical researcher believes he has discovered the exact location
of Noah's Ark on Turkey's Mount Ararat.
Edward Crawford, an archaeological field technician with a background in
biblical languages, is leading a local research team that will travel to the
mountain as soon as the Turkish government grants the necessary permits.
Crawford, 57, privately teaches Greek and has been studying Mount Ararat
since he saw a 1977 slide presentation given by John Morris, a researcher
who has written extensively about his own hunt for the ark. Currently,
Crawford is a teaching elder with the Evergreen Reformation in the South
Hill area. The conservative Christian church formerly was associated with
the Bible Presbyterian Church but split off because of doctrinal
differences. Crawford has traveled to Turkey 17 times and has been to Mount
Ararat six times. He has spent 25 years and more than $75,000 on his quest,
and says he has marked the location of a large rectangular structure buried
in the ice at about the 14,700-foot level. The ark has been the subject of
many quests, and Crawford is one of several people who claim to have found
it. While some researchers assert the ark's remains are strewn about Mount
Ararat, others believe they are located far to the south. According to the
Bible and the legends of many cultures, the ark ran aground in the Ararat
region as the waters of a cataclysmic flood receded thousands of years ago.
The Bible, in Genesis chapters 6 through 9, as well as the oral and written
histories of many cultures, describes the ark and a great flood associated
with it. A popular Bible story, the ark saga centers on Noah, a man charged
by God with building a wooden boat big enough to house many animals. The
Sunday School version of the story typically tells of male and female
animals marching two-by-two into the ark. The ark was to provide protection
against a catastrophic flood that would wipe out humanity, which, the Bible
says, had become evil. The Genesis account says Noah, his family and the
animals weathered the flood in the ark for more than a year. "This find
intersects every area of human existence," Crawford said. It could alter
much of what we think we know about human and geological history, he said.
And the implications could run as deep as the debates between creationists
and evolutionists about the age of the Earth and the origins of man, he
said. "It could mean a trillion books in a million libraries are obsolete,"
Crawford said. David Huelsbeck, professor of anthropology and dean of social
sciences at Pacific Lutheran University, said that while there is evidence
of a massive flood in the Black Sea area near Turkey, there is no proof of a
global flood. "There's no way to prove there wasn't a person named Noah who
built a big boat and saved a bunch of animals and his family," Huelsbeck
said. "But in terms of the literal extent of the story of the flooding of
the entire world...there is no geological evidence for it."
The key to the mountain
Crawford's work began with John Morris' slide show in Edmonton, Alberta. One
slide showed an inscribed stone from Mount Ararat. Crawford said he
recognized the symbols as symbols from an ancient alphabet from a time
period that has long been linked to the stories of the Flood. "I realized
the inscriptions were the key to the whole mountain," he said. Later that
year, he purchased a satellite slide of the mountain from U.S. Geological
Survey archives in South Dakota. He said it wasn't until years later that he
discovered his satellite slide showed one exposed end of the ark during a
period of extreme melt in 1973. During a 1983 climb, Crawford said, he found
several inscribed stones in the Ahora Gorge about 2,000 feet below the spot
he would mark as the location of the ark seven years later. Crawford
recognized the inscriptions as early Sumerian, from an ancient culture that
flourished in what is now southern Iraq. The signs, he believes, represented
a man and woman, the sacrifice of several animals, a rainbow and the command
to go forward, reminiscent of biblical passages. "He made a reasonable, good
translation of the inscriptions," said Veysel Donbaz, a Sumerologist and
chief specialist and curator of the Cuneiform Tablet Archives of Istanbul, a
department of the Istanbul Archaeological Museums. Donbaz said the mountain,
the site of many ancient burials, could well be full of ark-related
artifacts. Winfield Swanson, a former managing editor of Research &
Exploration: A Scholarly Publication of the National Geographic Society,
published Crawford's account of his findings in the autumn 1994 edition of
the reference periodical. In a recent interview, she said Crawford's thesis
was "a tad on the far-out side." No one else had interpreted the mountain's
inscriptions at that time, she said. She said Donbaz's assessment of
Crawford's work was the only positive one she had heard.
Identifying the ark
In 1986, Crawford carefully examined his satellite photo and noticed an
out-of-place object high on the north face of the mountain. "I was presented
with the unmistakable image of a man-made rectilinear structure protruding
out of the ice," he said. "When I realized I had discovered a structure in
that slide, every neuron in me was firing." During a 1990 climb, he used the
satellite slide for reference and pinpointed the place where the structure
lay. There he found a rectangular depression in the ice that matched the
length and width dimensions for the ark given in Genesis: about 475 feet
long, 80 feet wide and 50 feet high. Crawford left a marker of discovery, a
plastic pipe full of test tubes, at the south end of the buried structure.
In 1994, with the help of Scott Tipton, then an Air Force captain stationed
at McChord Air Force Base, Crawford was able to overlay a map onto a
blown-up image of his satellite slide. The latitude and longitude positions
of the image in the slide, Crawford said, turned out to be the same as those
for the rectangular depression he had seen and marked in the snow. Tipton
has since retired from the service and joined Crawford's team as a site
surveyor. In recent years, Crawford has returned to Turkey several times and
has presented his research to Turkish government representatives and Air
Force officers stationed in Turkey. Maj. Gen. Phil Nuber said he met with
Crawford in Ankara in 1999 and instructed him about making a presentation to
the Turkish military. "It's absurd to think that that would transpire if I
hadn't gotten it right," Crawford said. Crawford visited the Turkish
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in September 2001; a representative of the
office said the ministry had a file on all of Crawford's work but would not
comment further. Crawford and his team have a 30-year site plan that calls
for the meticulous study and preservation of the ark and its contents and
surroundings as well as the inscriptions. He has sent a copy of the plan and
a request for a technical research permit to the Turkish government.
According to the Web site of ArcImaging, another group of contemporary ark
researchers, the Turkish government has denied Ararat research permits for
2002 because of military activity in the region. But Crawford said he has
yet to receive a written denial and remains optimistic. "Now that I have
been compelled to divulge these things publicly," he said, "the world is
watching."
Bill Hutchens: 
253-941-9636
bill.h...@mail.tribnet.com
For more information . For more information about Edward Crawford's research
on Mount Ararat, visit the Web site 
www.vonbora.org
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