COULD NOAH’S ARK HAVE BEEN A PYRAMID..?

The Bible clearly says Noah’s Ark was a boat and even tells us its dimensions and that is was made of “gopher wood”.  However, and as extraordinary as this may sound, recent highly-sophisticated photographic scanning of some Dead Sea Scroll fragments suggest that Noah’s Ark was “pyramid-shaped”, if not an actual pyramid..!   

Just as strangely, the pyramidal ark seems to have been known to some Medieval scholars, for example Maimonides (1138-1204) a Sephardic Jewish philosopher, one of the most influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.  Most intriguingly of all, one of the 10 door panels created by Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455) in the “Doors of Paradise” – as Michelangelo called them – of the Florence Baptistry curiously depicts a number of people and various animals emerging from a door in the side of a pyramid.   The foreground depicts a naked figure – Noah himself – lying next to a large wine barrel with its lid off.   

A mysterious door panel from the Baptistry in Florence

The “Doors of Paradise” by Lorenzo Ghiberti