Mount Judi is a mountain in Turkey. It was considered in antiquity to be Noah's apobaterion or "Place of Descent", the location where the Ark came to rest after the Great Flood, according to very earl
The mountain range, as seen from Şırnak in eastern Turkey
Cast of a rock relief of Sennacherib from the foot of the mountain, near Cizre
Depiction of Noah's ark landing on the mountain top, from the North French Hebrew Miscellany (13th century)
In 1909, Gertrude Bell photographed the ruins of a monastery on the summit of Cudi Dagh
The Durupınar site is a geological formation of 164 metres made of limonite on Mount Tendürek, adjacent to the village of Üzengili in eastern Anatolia or Turkey. The site is 3 kilometres north of the
Mount Judi
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The Durupınar site in 2007
An official road sign near Doğubayazıt in Turkey with the words Nuhun Gemisi ("Noah's Ship") pointing the way to the Durupınar site and away from Mount Ararat
David Fasold, a promoter of the Durupınar site, standing beside what he claimed was a drogue stone; the crosses are believed to have been added during the Byzantine and Crusade periods.