This popped up on my news feed the other day, and I didn’t think much of it. Then it kept popping up from different sources, so I read it and still didn’t think much of it. By today I think I’ve seen it over half a dozen times or more all from different sources. I thought I’d bring it up, not so much as something to debunk, as once anyone reads the story, it’s not really what it claims, yet that claim is being made over and over all over the place. It’s more a look at how information or misinformation travels around.
Most sources seem to point back to an article in the Turkish paper Hurriyet where the opening paragraph sums up what actually happened (Translated by Google):
Rock and soil samples taken from the area where the remains of ‘Noah’s Ark’ are believed to be located in Doğubayazıt district of Ağrı were examined ... Read even more