100 Ohio Arch. and Hist. Society Publications.
NOAH'S ARK.
The construction and voyage of Noah's
Ark is not exactly material
pertinent to Ohio history or
archaeology; but as a matter of universal
curiosity we herewith republish from
very recent popular press items the
following:
M. V. Millard, archaeologist and
distinguished excavator along the
Nile, who was recently at Indianapolis,
declared that he had discovered
the place where Noah built the ark.
Millard for a year past was engaged
in excavations at various places on the
Nile, especially at Gizeh, in the
neighborhood of the great pyramid of
Cheops.
"I have discovered during the last
three years," he said, "just where
Noah lived, where the ark was built, and
that Noah built the great pyra-
mid of Khufu, known as the pyramid of
Gizeh. Noah was the greatest
king this world has ever seen. He was
the greatest of the Egyptian
Pharaohs, not excepting Rameses the
Great.
"Noah was a millionaire. The
biblical account of the flood gives no
clew as to where Noah lived or where his
ship carpenters were at work
for 126 years constructing the ark. Noah
was 600 years old when the
flood came. He must have been a
millionaire, and a man of great
authority. He built the ark at his own
expense. Such a boat in these
times would cost more than half a
million dollars.
"Noah built the great pyramid
during the earlier part of the fourth
Egyptian dynasty, and not more than
1,200 years after God had expelled
Adam and Eve from the garden of
Eden."
King Christian of Denmark will, in the
near future, have a chance
to experience the feelings of Noah
during the flood.
A Danish engineer, M. Vogt, supplied
with money by the large
Carlsberg fund, left by the late
millionaire brewer, Jacobsen, has built
an exact copy of the ark in which Noah
floated around until he stranded
on Mt. Ararat. The new ark was built
according to the description con-
tained in the Old Testament and an ancient
representation of the Biblical
vessel on an Apamean coin, dating back
to 300 B. C., which is on exhibi-
tion in a museum at Stockholm.
M. Vogt's ark is, however, only one
tenth the size of the one built
by Father Noah, but a number of Danish
University professors and scien-
tists declare it to be a fine craft,
which behaves spendidly in the open
sea, as they had an opportunity to see
during a recent trip on the Oere-
sound.
King Christian has promised to make a
trip in the unique vessel
during next month, and later the builder
of the vessel may try to take it
across the Atlantic.