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Archaeologist details how the Armenian Apostolic Church and Catholicos Mkrtich Khrimian (1820-1907) used Noah’s Ark to support Armenian independence initiatives against the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Archaeologist reports on Armenian motives and methods, from the nineteenth century until today, to conceal the Ark of Noah, in the southern gorge of greater Mount Ararat. Armenians desired that Noah’s Ark remain a secret, despite the vessel’s accessibility, due to the Ark’s cultural and religious importance for Armenians.

Archaeologist reports Armenian concealment of Noah's Ark began in 247 BC with a ruse on Mount Qardu or 'Judi', near the southern border of Armenia, to prevent incursions by the Parthian Empire and later cultures searching for Noah’s Ark, in the southern gorge of greater Mount Ararat in Armenia’s interior.

Archaeologists confirms Noah’s Ark is real and that its location and features in the southern gorge on greater Mount Ararat matches ancient descriptions by Berossus, Josephus, and in accounts of Alexander the Great.

Harvard University educated archaeologist and president of the archaeological contract firm PRC, Inc., Dr. Joel Klenck, reports that a prehistoric site on Mount Ararat in Turkey, associated with Noah’s Ark by several religious organizations, exhibits a unique division of artifacts.

Harvard University educated archaeologist and president of the archaeological contract firm PRC, Inc., Dr. Joel Klenck, reports that prehistoric sites on Mount Ararat in Turkey, associated with Noah’s Ark by several religious organizations, exhibit anthropomorphic carvings of basalt and pumice.

Archaeologist reports prehistoric sites on Mount Ararat in Turkey exhibit assemblage of Epipaleolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic botanical remains with several surprises.

Archaeologist reports that an entrance to a monumental wood structure on Mount Ararat in Turkey exhibits ceramic artifacts evidencing deposition of votive objects for millennia.

Archaeologist reports prehistoric sites on Mount Ararat in Turkey exhibit evidence for the domestication of the chickpea or garbanzo bean.

Archaeologist reports prehistoric sites on Mount Ararat in Turkey show few faunal remains but large amounts of animal coprolites in the interior rooms of a monumental wood structure.