tourist attraction, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday August 27.
"Troy has its Trojan horse, Romania has Dracula – we will have our Noah’s Ark," said historian and project leader Nikolai Kanchev. He told reporters that that the 112 metres (368 feet) long wooden vessel will be rebuild at the Black Sea coastal resort of Slanchev Bryag, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said.
In the biblical story, God flooded the earth to destroy sinners, except for Noah and his family and relatives who escaped the flood, by building a great wooden ark. They also took pairs of all the animal species in the world on board with them.
ACTORS
Kanchev said that in the new Ark, to be opened in 2003, actors will play the role of Noah and his family. And: "of course, there will be pairs of the different animal species chosen once by Noah," he added.
The Black Sea is thought by some historians to have been where the Great Flood described in the Bible took place about 7,600 years ago.
The BBC quoted explorer Robert Ballard- who discovered the remains of the sunken Titanic- as saying during an expedition to the Black Sea that his team was "looking for evidence of settlements where people had been living before the flood."
FLOOD
He added that "flooding occurred all over the world 7,600 years ago, but this was the flood of floods." Other experts believe however that that Noah’s Ark came to rest on Mount Ararat in Turkey, the highest mountain in the region.
The project seems part of an effort to boost the tourist industry in the impoverished former Communist nation of over 8 million people, which is seeking membership of NATO and the European Union.
