Noah's Ark and five other Bible stories, checked. Three were real.

Some say Noah's Ark is buried inside a hill in Turkey, and in September 2026 a team said it drilled sixty feet into it. Others say the Tower of Babel was a real building, and that Goliath stood over nine feet tall. We checked one claim from each of six Bible stories against the evidence: Noah's Ark at Durupinar, the Tower of Babel, Goliath's height, King David, a blast from space at Sodom, and Hezekiah's tunnel. Three were real. 0:00 Six Bible stories, checked 0:33 Noah's Ark at Durupinar 2:57 The Tower of Babel 4:40 Goliath's height 6:22 King David and the Tel Dan stone 8:16 A blast from space at Sodom 9:59 Hezekiah's tunnel 11:51 Three real, three legends What we left out: The older landing places for the Ark (Qardu, Mount Judi), and other sites claimed as the Ark. The Mesopotamian flood stories. Wyatt's "anchor stones". The drill bit that broke on a hard layer five meters down. The 2019 and 2021 scans' "right angles". The Esagila tablet's ninety meters, and Herodotus's eight towers. Borsippa's tower, long taken for Babel. Alexander's clearing of the ruin. The Babel/balal pun, and the Sumerian story of Enmerkar. 2 Samuel 21:19, where Elhanan kills Goliath. The Gath sherd with names like Goliath's. Khirbet Qeiyafa. The 2022 correction of the airburst paper's images. Other causes proposed for Sodom. The angel in 2 Kings 19:35. The 2025 dating of the Siloam dam. Sources: The Holy Bible (Robert Barker, 1611), Internet Archive; LIFE, 5 September 1960; Collins and Fasold, Journal of Geoscience Education 44 (1996); Avci, Engineering Geology (2007); Noah's Ark Scans, press release (23 September 2026); Fox News (2 October 2026); The Conversation (6 October 2026); Koldewey, The Excavations at Babylon (1914); Langdon, Building Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (1905); Novotny and Weiershauser, RINBE 1/1 (2024); Pedersen (2024); Alstola (2020); George, Archiv fur Orientforschung 51 (2005-2006); Hays, JETS 48 (2005); Billington (2007); Brenton (1844); Josephus, Antiquities (tr. Whiston, 1850); Arnold, 1 & 2 Samuel (2003); NET Bible; NRSV Updated Edition; Maeir (Biblical Archaeology Society); Biblical Archaeology Review (March/April 1994); Biran and Naveh, Israel Exploration Journal 45 (1995); Davies (2011); Lemaire (1994); Finkelstein, Na'aman and Romer (2019); Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia (1926) and The Annals of Sennacherib (1924); Frevel, History of Ancient Israel; Bunch et al., Scientific Reports 11, 18632 (2021), retracted (2025); Jaret and Harris, and Boslough and Bruno, Scientific Reports, Matters Arising; Live Science (21 September 2021); NASA on Tunguska; Sayce, PEF Quarterly Statement (1881) and Records of the Past, new series I (1888); the City of David guide; Frumkin, Shimron and Rosenbaum, Nature 425 (2003); Reich and Shukron (2011). Footage, public domain: Alexandre Promio, "Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem" (1897, Lumiere); NASA, ISS Expeditions 29 (2011) and 31 (2012). CC BY 2.0: Jorge Lascar, the Dead Sea shore. CC BY, from YouTube (each film named on screen): Pavel Kosenko, Stoic Spirit Documentary, sctabc, IsraBems Travel, and the walk through Hezekiah's tunnel by 이정표. Pictures: the Durupinar formation, Mfikretyilmaz (CC BY 3.0); Pieter Bruegel the Elder, "The Tower of Babel" (1563); John Martin, "The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah" (1852); Gustave Dore, "David and Goliath" (1866); the stele and the reconstruction of the tower, Pedersen (2024, CC BY 4.0); the tower's site, Marjon Verburg (CC0); a Babylonian tablet naming Jehoiachin, Jona Lendering, Livius.org (CC0); Qumran Cave 4, Matson Collection, Library of Congress; Tell es-Safi, Roded Shlomo, PikiWiki Israel (CC BY 2.5); the Tel Dan stele, Gary Todd (CC0); the Mesha Stone, Henri Sivonen (CC BY 2.0); Sennacherib's prism, Daderot (CC0); Hezekiah's tunnel, Danny Herman (CC BY 3.0); the Siloam inscription in Istanbul (CC0) and its 1881 copy; Tunguska, N. A. Setrukov (about 1928). Map data: Natural Earth (public domain); the board and drawings are ours. The videos we discuss, shown as stills: Fox News Clips, "Could this be Noah's Ark? Researchers PROBE massive formation in Turkey" (YouTube, 3 October 2026); Anton Petrov, "Meteor Explosion Destroyed Ancient City In 1650BC, Was It Biblical Sodom?" (YouTube, 25 September 2021). Music, public domain: Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Easter Festival Overture (Musopen Symphony); Saint-Saens, Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" (US Air Force Concert Band); Mussorgsky, Night on Bald Mountain (Musopen); Saint-Saens, Orient et Occident (US Marine Band). CC0: Handel, Music for the Royal Fireworks, Overture (Paul Ayres). Noah's Ark at Durupinar and the 2026 drilling, where the Tower of Babel stood, David and Goliath, the Tel Dan stele, where Sodom was, the Tall el-Hammam airburst, Hezekiah's tunnel. #NoahsArk #BiblicalArchaeology #Bible