The mountain of Noah's Ark, a biblical symbol of ancient Armenia, remains an unresolved issue in the ongoing attempts to revive relations between Ankara and Yerevan. Turkey claims that Kurdish ...

Sometimes called Urartu, it was a powerful nation of the region around Mount Ararat in 800 B.C. A mound in Turkey has yielded much information about this nation and its widespread influence ...

W hile visiting eastern Turkey to climb Mount Ararat, I discovered a nice cafe called Ru Sahaf in the town of Doğubayazıt. I had arrived days before the hike and was looking for a place to work ...

Could an ancient wooden structure discovered beneath volcanic rock and ice on Turkey’s Mount Ararat be Noah’s Ark of biblical fame? That will be the focus of a panel of explorers and experts ...