Ararat

Modern Armenia, Ararat referred in ancient times the lands between the Tigris and the Caucasus Mountains, and called Urartu in Assyrian inscriptions. The name came, naturally, also to apply to the magnificent mountains that form the borders of modern Turkey, Russia and Armenia, and reaches more than 5,500 m (16,900 ft) high. Ararat is most famous among Christians as the site where Noah's ark came to rest at the end of the Flood (Gen 8:4).

Snow-covered mountains of Ararat.

Claims of the sighting of an ark-like structure in the mountains that some think may be the remains of Noah's ark remain un-confirmed by any concrete evidences.

Ararat appears in the historical narrative again in the account of the assassination of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, when he was worshipping in the temple of his god Nisroch. His murderers, his sons, Adrammelech and Sharezer, fled afterwards to "the land of Ararat" (2 Ki 19:25//Isa 37:38).

The final mention of Ararat in the Old Testament comes in Jeremiah's prophecy of the doom of Babylon, when the kingdom of Ararat was among those summoned to witness against Babylon (Jer 51:27).