أين رست سفينة نوح؟ جبال أرارات، ولكن أي قمة؟

Genesis puts Noah’s ark “upon the mountains of Ararat,” the mountains of a land, not one named peak. Ararat is the Hebrew form of Urartu, an ancient kingdom in the highlands between the Aras and the upper Tigris, in what is now eastern Turkey, Armenia and north-western Iran. The verse never says which of its mountains held the ark. Later tradition settled on two places. Armenian Christians and most modern searchers point to the great volcano now called Mount Ararat,…