El Arca de Noé es un relato de la Biblia hebrea, en el que se cuenta como, por orden de Yahvé, el patriarca Noé construye una embarcación para su salvación y la de su familia quienes, preservados del diluvio universal, luego repoblarían la Tierra con su descendencia. Se encuentra tanto en los textos sagrados del judeocristianismo (la Torah y el Antiguo Testamento) como en el Corán de los musulmanes. Su origen puede remontarse al mito sumerio de Ziusudra, incluido en un poema épico de la Mitología Caldea llamado Atrahasis, y al contacto de los hebreos con la cultura mesopotámica después de la caída de Jerusalén. Aunque en el pasado se aceptaba el diluvio universal como un hecho histórico, actualmente la tendencia de los estudiosos es hacia el escepticismo respecto a su literalidad, dada la falta de evidencia geológica para tal evento.2 Sin embargo, varios literatos bíblicos siguen explorando el monte Ararat, donde la Biblia dice que el arca descansa. Noah's Ark (Hebrew: תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) is the vessel in the Genesis flood narrative (Genesis chapters 6–9) by which God saves Noah, his family, and a remnant of all the world's animals from the flood. God gives Noah detailed instructions for building the ark: it is to be of gopher wood, smeared inside and out with pitch, with three decks and internal compartments; it will be 300 cubits long (137.16 m, 450 ft), 50 wide (22.86 m, 75 ft), and 30 high (13.716 m, 45 ft); it will have a roof "finished to a cubit upward"; and an entrance on the side.[1] The story goes on to describe the ark being afloat throughout the flood and subsequent receding of the waters before it came to rest on Mount Ararat. The story is repeated, with variations, in the Quran, where the ark appears as Safina Nuh (Arabic: سفينة نوح "Noah's boat"). The Genesis flood narrative is similar to numerous other flood myths from a variety of cultures. The earliest known written flood myth is the Sumerian flood myth found in the Epic of Ziusudra.[2] There is no scientific evidence supporting a global flood.[3] Searches for Noah's Ark, sometimes mockingly referred to as "arkeology",[4] have been made from at least the time of Eusebius (c.275–339 AD) to the present day. Despite many expeditions, no scientific evidence of the ark has been found
