Durupınar site in Doğubayazıt

You're standing at the Durupınar site, high on the slopes of Mount Tendürek in eastern Turkey, right next to the little village of Üzengili and almost two thousand metres above sea level. Take a look at that long shape in the landscape. See it? It looks suspiciously like the hull of a ship. It's 164 metres long and made of limonite, an iron-rich rock. And that's exactly why some believers are convinced this is the petrified wreck of Noah's Ark. The summit of Greater Mount Ararat, by the way, is only 29 kilometres to the north.