“It is the consensus among scholars
that the Urartian state at the time Genesis was written (assuming the
authorship of Genesis ca. 13th to 15th centuries) did not
extend as far north as the present-day Mt. Ararat. W.F.
Albright, known as the dean of Biblical archaeologists, wrote:
‘There is no basis either in biblical
geography or in later tradition for the claim that Mount
Ararat (the mountain bearing this name in modern times) is
the location of the settling of the ark.’ (Genesis 8:4 says
the Ark ‘rested...upon the mountains of Ararat.’)”
(1969: 48).ArcImaging - The Search For Noah's Ark
Late Rise of Mount Ararat Tradition?