Ron Wyatt

Ronald Eldon Wyatt (June 2, 1933 – August 4, 1999), was an American nurse anesthetist and pseudo archaeologist, who claimed to have made almost 100 biblical archaeology discoveries.

[1] Wyatt's claims have been described as "fraudulent",[2] in "the category of trash which one finds in tabloids such as the National Enquirer",[3] and been criticized by scientists, historians, biblical scholars, and some creationists.

Wyatt was working as a nurse anesthetist in a hospital in Madison, Tennessee,[4] when, in 1960, he saw a picture in Life of the Durupınar site, a boat-like shape on a mountain near Mount Ararat.

The resulting widespread speculation in evangelical Christian circles that this might be Noah's Ark started Wyatt on his career as an amateur archaeologist.

From 1977 until his death, in 1999, he made more than a hundred trips to the Middle East, his interests widening to take in a great variety of references from the Old and New Testaments.