‘Ark’ find confiscated
NZPA-AP Ankara Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Minister said yesterday that samples from Mount Ararat which a United States team claims are pieces of Noah’s Ark have no historic value. Mr Mukerrem Tascioglu told a news conference in the capital of Ankara that authorities took samples from the suitcase of the team’s leader, Marvin Steffins, and had them analysed at the Istanbul Archeology Museum. “The samples are only rocks and soil, not wood, and it is understood that they don’t need any protection, because they are not ancient pieces,” Mr Tas-
cioglu said. The samples will be brought to Ankara for further tests to determine their content and approximate age.
Mr Steffins, his wife, Marjorie, and their daughter, Marianne, were detained at Istanbul’s Yesilkoy Airport for three hours yesterday as they were about to board a jetliner for New York. Security forces found six bags of samples, weighing about 3.9 kg, from'what Mr Steffins says might be the biblical Ark, in his suitcase.
“Steffins was not aware that it was against the law to take (the samples) abroad without permission,” Mr Tascioglu said.
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