In a word, nope. Plus, murder in the Arctic; a nutritious Thanksgiving.
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| | In the Biblical story of the Flood, Noah’s Ark eventually rested upon the mountains of Ararat (illustrated above) and the Lord promised to never again doom the Earth because of humankind.
But where exactly did the Ark hit dry ground? Was there ever such an apocalyptic flood? Or an ark?
Scientists are contemptuous about the long, tantalizing, romantic search for traces of Noah’s life-saving vessel. They list a string of surprising reasons.
Here’s the full story.
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| | | Flood or fiction? Enthusiasts regularly claim to find artifacts from the Ark on Mount Ararat, pictured above in eastern Turkey by Nat Geo Explorer John Stanmeyer. Those claims will never be conclusive, say archaeologists. Read more. | | | |
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| WHO WAS THIS TRAILBLAZING SCIENTIST? | |
 | | MAP BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC | | | Underrated in her lifetime: She was a pioneering geologist and created this pathbreaking map of the ocean floor for Nat Geo in 1968. The National Geographic Explorer was honored on Monday with a Google Doodle for her accomplishments. "I had a blank canvas," she once said, "to fill with extraordinary possibilities." Who was she? Click here to find out. | | | |
 | | TAUBMAN MUSEUM OF ART, ROANOKE, VIRIGINIA | | | Murder in the Arctic: The commander of the North Pole mission was a deeply eccentric man, an Ohio engraver with little knowledge of how to command an expedition. Nevertheless, the U.S.S. Polaris (illustrated above) made it farther north than any known vessel, but that’s before someone slipped Charles Francis Hall two doses of arsenic. After that, the mission suffered one disaster after another. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY MAX SHEN, GETTY IMAGES | | America’s first megalopolises: Long before Europeans arrived, Indigenous cities across North America were brimming with tens of thousands of people and grand palaces, temples, tombs, and pyramids. Archaeologists are diving into these ancient metropolises to discover who lived there—and what happened to them. Nat Geo looks at five epicenters and what we know so far. (Pictured above, two pyramids in Teotihuacan, north of Mexico City.)
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