Project Description
- Noah’s Ark landed on the “mountains of Ararat” (Biblical Hebrew: הָרֵי אֲרָרָט, hare ararat), according to Genesis 8:4. Many historians and Bible scholars agree that “Ararat” is the Hebrew name of Urartu, the geographical predecessor of Armenia; they argue that the word referred to the wider region at the time and not specifically to Mt. Ararat. The phrase is translated as “mountains of Armenia” (montes Armeniae) in the Vulgate, the fourth century Latin translation of the Bible. Nevertheless, Mount Ararat is traditionally considered the resting place of Noah’s Ark. It is called a biblical mountain.
