What is Noah's Ark?
[[File:Französischer Meister um 1675 001.jpg|thumb|right|upright|The construction of the Ark. Painted by an unknown French painter, around 1675.]] [[File:Michelangelo Buonarroti 020.jpg|thumb|right|A [[fesco]] in the [[Sistine Chapel]], by [[Michelangelo]]. It is called ''The Great Flood'']] [[File:Noahs Ark.jpg|thumb|Noah's Ark, by [[Edward Hicks]]]] '''Noah's Ark''', according to the book of [[Genesis]] (chapters 6–9) in the [[Bible]], was a [[ship]] that God told [[Noah]] to build to save himself, his family and every kind of animal, because God was going to destroy the Earth by bringing about a great [[flood]]. It also says that the ark rested on the highest point in the area which was [[Mount Ararat]], in what is now [[Turkey]]. There have been many claims of people who say they have seen the ark. <ref>{{cite web|last=Riss|first=Richard M.|title=Historical Evidence for Noah's Ark|url=http://www.grmi.org/Richard_Riss/evidences2/08ark.html|accessdate=7 November 2011|archive-date=13 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110913124301/http://www.grmi.org/Richard_Riss/evidences2/08ark.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> However, no physical evidence has been found. There are different stories about the ark in the [[Qur'an|Quran]], the Christian Bible and the Jewish [[Torah]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=How does the Qur'an compare to the Book of Genesis on the great events of history (Creation, Fall, Flood and confusion of languages)? - ChristianAnswers.Net|url=https://christiananswers.net/q-aig/quran-genesis.html|access-date=2022-12-10|website=christiananswers.net}}</ref> There is also a [[Babylonian]] version of the story of the great flood.<ref>{{citation |last=Finkel |first=Irving L. |author-link= Irving Finkel|title=The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood |year=2014 |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lScWAwAAQBAJ&q=tablet&pg=PT274|isbn=9781444757071 }}</ref> And many traditional cultures around the world on every inhabited continent have folklore and stor