Image Credits & Attributions
ArkSearch uses public-domain historical material and openly licensed photography wherever practical. This page records creators, sources, licenses, and material changes such as cropping so that reusable media remains traceable.
Licenses below apply to the credited third-party images, not automatically to ArkSearch text, design, logos, diagrams, or other site content. Historical portraits may be later artistic representations rather than contemporary likenesses; captions identify them accordingly.
Locations & Field Photography
Photograph by ahmetmese, taken from Iğdır, Turkey. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph by Irek i Kasia. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph by Zorka Sojka. The wide featured version on ArkSearch is cropped for display. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph by Rudolf Pohl, courtesy Dr. Lorence G. Collins. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph by Timo Roller, photographed from Şırnak in 2013. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph by Gertrude Bell, 1909. Source: Wikimedia Commons / Gertrude Bell Archive.
Photograph of a cast of the Sennacherib rock relief from the foot of Cudi Dağı near Cizre. Photo by Timo Roller. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph by Nate Loper of the British Museum relief showing Sennacherib seated on his throne after the siege of Lachish. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Historical illustration from John Buchan Telfer, The Crimea and Transcaucasia (1876). Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph by Maziar.a 1997, Ardabil Province, Iran. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Detail from the Chronica Majora / Map of the Holy Land with Armenia, Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Engraving of Mount Ararat with Noah’s Ark and Saint Gayane Church. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
United States government aerial photograph later released through U.S. intelligence records. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph by Hiwa Sherzad, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. Used as a modern landscape reference for the debated Piramagrun/Pir Omar Gudrun identification of ancient Mount Nisir. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph by Urek Meniashvili of the modern mausoleum associated with the local Noah tomb tradition. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Open-air rock-art landscape associated with modern local “ship-rock” Noah folklore. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Illustration of a Roman provincial coin representing Noah and the Ark, reproduced in Walter Lowrie, Monuments of the Early Church (1901). Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph by Farhoudk of Alam Kuh, the highest peak in the Takht-e Suleiman massif of Iran’s Alborz range. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
View of the Zard Kuh range from Bazoft, Iran, used as a landscape reference for Russell Humphreys’ broader western-Zagros proposal. Photo by Bazofti. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph by Mike Peel of the Babylonian world-map tablet, c. 700–500 BC, British Museum. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
People & Historical Portraits
Portrait published before 1926. Source: Wikimedia Commons / Al-Aʻlām.
Historical photograph from Bell’s Anatolian travels, 1907. Source: Wikimedia Commons / Gertrude Bell collection.
Portrait dated no later than 1898. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Historical portrait. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Portrait circa 1831, attributed to Ludwig von Maydell. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Nineteenth-century representational engraving published in the 1854 Whiston edition of Josephus. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph by Robert C. Michelson showing Fasold beside an Arzap drogue stone. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Later representational illustration from Jules Verne’s Découverte de la terre (1878), by Léon Benett or Paul Philippoteaux; not a contemporary portrait. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Official NASA portrait of the Apollo 15 lunar module pilot, 1971. Source: Wikimedia Commons / NASA.
3D Models & Interactive Media
Interactive 3D terrain model created and published by Nate Loper in 2020. Live model: Sketchfab. Archival record and preview: Zenodo, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10339759.
Stock / Design Source Material
Deep Dive source media retained in the site library includes work credited in the original filenames to Lisha Riabinina and Ekrulila via Pexels.