The press was alarmed by the sensational report in the summer of 1960. An American reconnaissance plane over Turkey discovers the shape of a ship stranded on Mount Ararat. Photos go around the world. Is the search for Noah's Ark finally successful? Is what the pilots discovered really the ship that survived the Flood? For centuries, Bible Students, archaeologists and historians have looked for wood from the ark. Everyone knows the story of Noah, who builds a ship and takes all the animals in the world in it to brave the flood. No story in the Bible is as dramatic as this.