New Noah's Ark to visit in the Netherlands, and taste Noah's pudding in Turkey

All About Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark was described in the Middle East in biblical and pre-biblical times, built before the great flood, survived the rising waters and supposedly sailed off and landed safely in Turkey where you can find its reputed remains - and disputed remains. You can take a tour to Noah's mausoleum, and eat Noah's dish - but now western Europe has a large reproduction of Noah's ark as a tourist attraction in the Netherlands.

Babylonian Text And Reconstruction
Earlier in 2014 I saw a Channel 4 TV film about the reconstruction of Noah's Ark based on the dimensions found in a pre-biblical Babylonian script taken to Babylonian text expert Finkel at the British Museum in London. Finkel was so excited to have detailed dimenions and instructions, that he went off to find somebody to build the huge boat and make it ship-shape, completely round, and seaworthy.  Welsh coracles and Indian fishing boats are also this shape, resembling a donut or bagel, which seems odd to those of us used to modern bullet-shape boats which fly through water like pointed arrows.  Finkel's builders were in the quiet backwaters of India.

Netherlands Tourist Attraction in Dordrecht

Now here's another. The Dutch version is a tourist attraction. It has two amphitheatres where you learn more. Noah's ark is a cultural heritage, a childhood toy, a tale from ancient Babylonian times, taken to Finkel in the British Museum, and is known from religions texts, from Genesis in the Hebrew Bible to Jews, in The Old Testament to Christians, and in a later version transmitted to Moslems.

A reproduction of Noah's Ark, as long as a football pitch and four storeys high is located at Dordrecht, and is now open to the public. Admission costs €7.50 (£5.95) for children and €12.50 (£9.90) for adults.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah's_Ark

See Wikipedia for picture credits and more details.

Turkey's Noah's Mausoleum

I must add this to my book Jewish Travel Tales and Guidebook. Noah must be one of the earliest travellers in the bible of whom we have evidence. His boat was supposed to have landed in Turkey where you can see and visit a hill named after him. Also Noah's Mausoleum.

Searches for Noah's ark are nicknamed arkeology.

Noah's Dessert In Turkey And Nearby

 In Turkey you can taste a national Noah's dish, a dessert called Noah's pudding made from fruit and nuts. It's Turkish name is ashure, and it's of Armenian origin. Ashure is also the Moslem version of the dish celebrating a later event. The dessert is also popular in surrounding countries. 

Noah's family are supposed to have made this dessert from leftovers to elaborate their safe arrival on dry land after the flood. How do you remember the name? Here's a mnemonic I've made up for myself and you. So, Noah's family came ashore and made ash-u-re. (I have to keep evading the spellchecker which turns unusual words into the more popular words.) 

Lots of different recipes for it, highly calorific, eaten in winter and all year, can include grains, rice, chickpeas, fruit nuts and orange or lemon peel which has been sugared. (I keep trying to write c - an - died but spell checker turns it into dandies).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashure

More Information

For more about the Babylonian tablet taken to bearded expert Finkel,

 who looks a bit like Noah, 

at the British museum 

and the reconstruction of the circular Noah's ark using Indian expertise see

theguardian.com/culture/2014/jan/24/babylonian-tablet-noah-ark-constructed-british-museum

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You can also see various accounts of Noah's Ark on Youtube.

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