Measures of the Ark according to Armais Arutunoff
The wealthy Armenian from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Armais Arutunoff, told to Dave GuMaer about the Noah’s Ark in 1970 From what Dave GuMaer could remember from Arutunoff’s description, the dimensions of the Ark were some 450 feet long, by fifty feet high, by some 100 to 150 feet wide. It was in the shape of a barge. The Ark had a narrow catwalk running along the top length of the barge. The soldiers had walked inside the structure and had observed animal stalls of all different sizes made of wood. All the wood was petrified. They also found edible wheat and honey. The soldiers chipped away pieces of the petrified wood for later analysis to determine what type of trees were used in its construction.
Eva Miller Ebeling’s testimony
Eva Miller Ebeling [1897-1977] lived between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea and from there was able to see Mount Ararat. Her family, including nephew Alvin Holderbecker and her sons and daughters, stated that Ebeling saw photographs of Noah’s Ark. They were shown to her by her father Henry Miller who was the doctor on the Russian Expedition. Holderbecker stated the following to Eryl Cummings: ”My Aunt Eva was a Russian woman [who managed to escape from the Russian Revolution]. Her father was a medical officer in the White Russian Army. He was the chief medical officer on the expedition that found Noah’s Ark.
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Eva’s father and a 100 men group went on a second expedition to find Noah’s Ark. They did reach the point where they could see the Ark plainly and photos were taken. When he came back from the expedition, he showed my Aunt Eva the photographs and reports.”
”My Aunt, having seen the pictures many times, told me the Ark was three decks high, and on top of the roof there was a catwalk that was about knee-high with openings underneath to provide ventilation or light. Another item that Aunt Eva mentioned: Her father said that the raised part that looks like a walk way above the roof of the Ark extending the length of it, was about knee high, which the Bible said was to be 1 cubit.”
Dimensions of the Ark by U.S. Navy Machinist Ray Lubeck
In 1942, U.S. Navy Machinist Mate 1st Class Ray Lubeck became an alleged eyewitness to a silent film of 50 Russian soldiers marching past Noah’s Ark near the top of Mount Ararat. Lubeck was a Machinist Mate in the U.S. Navy on Midway Island in 1942. To keep up the morale of the Navy, Marines, and Air Force stationed on the island, movies would occasionally be shown. One film clip of between thirty seconds and a couple minutes showed fifty Russian soldiers marching single file down a ridge and past Noah’s Ark. Since the film was silent, black and white, and older quality, there was an American commentator describing the scene in English. He stated that the Russians were going on a campaign to fight the Turks although Lubeck did not notice any guns since he was stunned to see Noah’s Ark in one piece. There were thirty or more people who witnessed the film.
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Lubeck stated that the location the film stated and showed was near the top of Mount Ararat on the border of Turkey and Russia. He said it appeared to be within a few hundred feet or a thousand feet of the summit of the mountain. This and the map he drew may indicate the saddle area which is where other Russian accounts stated the ark was located by the Russians and there was a group of fifty Russian soldiers on one side of the mountain and one hundred on another side of the mountain.
Lubeck stated that the dimensions of the ark appeared to be about seventy-five feet wide by fifty feet high He said there was a superstructure that ran all the way from the front to back and was about six to eight feet high with a roof on top that was pointed at about a twenty-degree angle. Lubeck stated there was a keel perhaps eighteen to twenty-four inches wide that appeared to run under the ship all of its length and up to a point on the bow. The bow was rounded and pointed like a boat not like a barge. There was also a solid wood railing around the edge of Noah’s Ark that extended up about three feet which blocked his view by several hundred feet long and that it was completely intact with no damage at that time. "The upper part had additions that looked like a railing or a roof that was in extreme disrepair. "Lubeck said that there was a hill on one side and a drop-off on another side. He stated that the ark was on a precipice and about seventy-five feet from the drop off in a little valley.
Noah's Ark found
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