Joe Rogan Experience #2558 - Tyler Engle · Aired Sep 24, 2026
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The large holed stones near the Durupinar 'Noah's Ark' site in Turkey are drogue or anchor stones, the kind found in ancient Greek and Roman ports, hung off a ship to keep it stable in rough water or anchored.
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This line comes from a clip played on the show. Stone anchors with a rope hole are real and have been found across the ancient Mediterranean. But geologists who studied the stones near the Durupinar site found they are made of local volcanic rock, so no ark could have carried them there, and the same work found the boat-shaped formation is natural. Calling these particular stones an ark's drogue stones is not supported.
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Is it true that the large holed stones near the Durupinar 'Noah's Ark' site in Turkey are drogue or anchor stones, the kind found in ancient Greek and Roman ports, hung off a ship to keep it stable in rough water or anchored?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. This line comes from a clip played on the show. Stone anchors with a rope hole are real and have been found across the ancient Mediterranean. Tyler Engle said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2558 - Tyler Engle, aired Sep 24, 2026, at 2:36. The supporting source is csun.edu, linked below.
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