The search for Noah’s Ark has been a long storied one. Crazy long in fact. Irving Finkel has revealed period cuneiform writings about the great flood.

Currently, every few years, someone will find something new at the famous Durupınar site near Mount Ararat where the Ark is supposed to have set ground.
Currently, researchers utilizing advanced underground scanning and excavation techniques have uncovered charred, wood-like material buried 30 feet beneath the surface they collected to date and study.

In previous investigations, scans were made using ground-penetrating radar to examine the formation’s interior. The team reported finding what it interpreted as a network of underground chambers and tunnels whose dimensions appeared consistent with descriptions of the Ark in the Bible.

These sorts of announcements have happened often enough over the decades that one should remain cautious, but the current oldest known map of the world is a Mesopotamian cuneiform tablet that supposedly gives a description of the ark (parsiktu vessel). Not only that, it gives details on how to get to it’s wreck – which is named concretely as having come to rest on modern Mt Ararat.