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Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English, Arabic, and Turkish. 687 p., color and b/w ills. International Noah and Cudi Mountain Symposium Papers.= Uluslararasi Hz. Nuh ve Cudi Dagi Sempozyum Bildirileri. 27-29 September 2013. German explorers have visited the summit of Mount Cudi since 1899. Unique photographs were taken and much fascinating information has been assembled. Although I did not visit the site so far myself, I was able to explore the summit by using Google Earth images, through which I indeed managed to put together many important pieces of the jigsaw puzzle on the possible location of what may actually remain of Noah's ark. Johannes Lepsius Figure 2: Johannes Lepsius (Lepsius House, Potsdam) The first photo ever taken on the summit of Mount Cudi stems·from Johannes Lepsius and dates to the summer of 1899. It is printed in his book »Ex Oriente Lux, in which he reports his »Besteigung des Ararat« (»Ascent of Ararat«). He explains: Not the 'Masis' at the border of Russia, but the Cudi on the northern edge of Mesopotamia is the Ararat of Scripture as (found) in oriental tradition, Lepsius was bornin Berlin on December i5, i858, while his father Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884) is considered to be the founding father of German Egyptology, who in turn was a friend of the famous naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). Lepsius' mother, Elizabeth (1828-1899) was the daughter of the famous composer Bernhard Klein (1793-1832) and the great-granddaughter of the writer Friedrich Nicolai (1733-1811). Consequently at Lepsius' home several influential personalities within the fields of politics, culture and ecclesiastical life regularly gathered. Johannes Lepsius himself had studied math and philosophy, while he received a doctorate in Theology in i880. While he was an assistant reverend at the German