Expedition
Aaron J. Smith's Ararat expedition finds no Ark
Aaron J. Smith of People's Bible College led an expedition to Ararat after Egerton Sykes withdrew; the team could not locate Reshit or the reported ship.
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Associated Press reporter who in 1948 relayed a Kurdish landowner's report of a petrified ship on Ararat.
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Aaron J. Smith of People's Bible College led an expedition to Ararat after Egerton Sykes withdrew; the team could not locate Reshit or the reported ship.
AP reporter Edwin Greenwald relayed landowner Shukru Asena's account that a farmer named Reshit found a petrified ship's prow about two-thirds of the way up Ararat.