Bear Grylls visits Türkiye’s Durupınar site linked to Noah’s Ark research

Adventurer and TV presenter Bear Grylls visited the Durupınar Formation in Doğubayazıt, in Türkiye’s Ağrı province, where researchers are investigating remains claimed to belong to Noah’s Ark, and filmed the work on site.

Adventurer and television presenter Bear Grylls visited the Durupınar Formation in Doğubayazıt, in Türkiye’s eastern Ağrı province, to follow research into remains claimed to belong to Noah’s Ark. Grylls and his team filmed the work as part of an international documentary project.

The project, led by Prof. Cenker Atila, head of the archaeology department at Sivas Cumhuriyet University, involves around 20 scientists and students from five countries. Three documentary crews from Britain and the United States have also filmed at the site.

Atila said ground-penetrating radar had detected some voids that could be corridors or rooms, and that soil analysis was being concentrated at those points. He stressed that the voids have not been confirmed as an artificial structure or as remains of Noah’s Ark, and that the findings do not directly confirm historical or religious claims.

The ship-shaped formation near Mount Ağrı (Ararat) was spotted in 1959 by Turkish army cartographer Capt. İlhan Durupınar while studying aerial photographs.