THIS MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
The answer
Medieval. Multiple radiocarbon laboratories dated Navarra's wood to well within the Common Era — commonly summarized as roughly the seventh or eighth century — several thousand years after any plausible ark. The beam itself is real worked wood from high on a hard mountain.
Why it’s interesting
Wood was the strongest kind of ark evidence ever claimed, precisely because it could be tested — and the test is what set it aside. High-altitude timber has its own explanations, including centuries of pilgrims and hermits on a mountain long held sacred.
Scholarly consensus
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