Thus the style of wrestling being deemed "King's Road." 1990's All Japan is where the wrestlers worked the most realistic wrestling style ever performed, and where the vast majority of puro fans feel the best workers and best matches resided.
Yeung said he plans to go back to the site again, but first will appeal to scientists throughout the world to examine their findings.Misawa, in all probability the greatest in-ring worker in Japanese history, and for my money the best worker anywhere ever, spent the first 17 years of his career working for All Japan Pro Wrestling (other than an AJ-sponsored training stint in Mexico in 1983). The research and the trip to Mount Ararat was financed by his Christian organization, but he declined to say how much was shelled out. Yeung got involved with the project in 2004. "But who knows? Stranger things have happened." "I'm waiting for them to convince me," Cline said. In 2006, American Christians claimed to have found a rock formation that resembles the ark very close to Yeung's site. "We are sure," one Turkish scientist said with the help of a translator, "these parts belong to the ship of Noah."įor centuries, every few years people have claimed to have found Noah's Ark.
At 2½ miles up, Yeung's video shows straw lying on the structure's floor. Mount Ararat has long been the favored theory for the ark's final resting place. "Some of them said they have seen it but we were the first to bring back video of these wooden remains." "We heard from the people living near the mountain that there are remains of a wooden boat on top of the mountain," Yeung said. Yeung said the Turkish scientists told him there has never been any evidence of human settlement on top of the mountain. They say the wood has been tested and carbon dates to around the time Noah was afloat. He brought back samples that were later tested in Iran. Yeung said he filmed inside the structure for about an hour. "Instead of Noah's Ark, I would be looking for Noah's first house or something like that," he said.įilmmaker Appeals for Help Verifying Ark Discovery, Plans to Go Back for More "The wood should just have disintegrated."Ĭline said that if Noah's Ark had come to rest atop a remote mountain, as the Bible suggests, it's reasonable that he would have dismantled his ship to use the wood for shelter. "In terms of Noah's Ark, I would have suspected it would have perished long ago," he said. "I would want to first of all try to figure out their data, verify it," he said.Įven though the precise location of the latest find has been kept secret, Cline said Yeung and his scientists would need to "parachute in" a large team of independent experts and archaeologists to study the wood and surrounding areas.
He suggested it could even be a very old shepherd's hut. "I'm not quite 99.9 percent sure it's Noah's Ark, but they've got something," George Washington University's Eric Cline told "Good Morning America." "I'm waiting for them to convince me." But skeptics are already questioning Yeung's find, especially since he refuses to say exactly where he found the supposed ark with its wooden chambers still intact. "We are only 99 percent certain that it is Noah's Ark based on historical accounts, including the Bible and local beliefs of the people in the area, as well as carbon dating." No one has ever seen the ark, no one knows what it looks like," Yeung said. "We are not saying that we are 100 percent certain that what we found is Noah's Ark.