News that a Christian group based in Hong Kong may have discovered the biblical Noah's Ark in Turkey is making headlines around the world.
The announcement has also prompted Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism to investigate how parts of the alleged find ended up in Hong Kong.
Explorers from Noah's Ark Ministries International said they had found wood and compartments that could have housed animals that were believed to have been saved from the global flood narrated in the Bible.
They said they were '99.9 per cent sure' that they had finally located the legendary boat, about 4,200 metres up Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey. The evangelist group said carbon dating had proved wood from the site was 4,800 years old.
The group also raised eyebrows when it made the same announcement in 2008.
One of the sceptics, archaeologist Peter Kuniholm, said of the latest finding: 'There's not enough H2O in the world to get an ark that high up a mountain.'