According to Genesis, which mountain range is associated with Noah's Ark coming to rest?

According to Genesis, Noah's Ark comes to rest on the mountains of Ararat. Genesis 8:4 uses the plural phrase “mountains of Ararat,” referring to a region rather than explicitly naming one peak.

Ararat was an ancient geographical area associated with the kingdom of Urartu in the highlands around eastern Anatolia and the southern Caucasus. The biblical wording does not say simply “Mount Ararat,” although later tradition often identifies the ark's resting place with the specific modern volcano Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.

This distinction explains why “Mount Ararat” is common in art, maps, and popular culture while “the mountains of Ararat” is the more precise wording of Genesis. Other proposed locations have appeared over the centuries, but no location has been archaeologically verified as the ark's remains.

The passage describes where the vessel rested as the waters receded. It does not provide a modern coordinate, a surveyed summit, or evidence that would settle the question according to current archaeological standards.