Genesis says the ark rested “upon the mountains of Ararat,” and tells us no more about the place. 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. So the verse names a land, and it never says which of its mountains held the ark. Tradition has settled on two of those mountains: Armenian Christians and most modern searchers point…

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