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    The Ark of the Covenant was a sacred artifact built by the Israelites to house the Ten Commandments, but it vanished after the Babylonian conquest in the 6th century BC. There are several claims about its location, including that it was taken to Ethiopia and is housed in a church there, or that it is buried under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. However, there is no scientific evidence to prove or disprove these stories, and the Ark's fate remains unknown due to lack of access to sites where it may be located.

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    The Ark of the Covenant was a sacred artifact built by the Israelites to house the Ten Commandments, but it vanished after the Babylonian conquest in the 6th century BC. There are several claims about its location, including that it was taken to Ethiopia and is housed in a church there, or that it is buried under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. However, there is no scientific evidence to prove or disprove these stories, and the Ark's fate remains unknown due to lack of access to sites where it may be located.

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    The Ark of the Covenant was a sacred artifact built by the Israelites to house the Ten Commandments, but it vanished after the Babylonian conquest in the 6th century BC. There are several claims about its location, including that it was taken to Ethiopia and is housed in a church there, or that it is buried under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. However, there is no scientific evidence to prove or disprove these stories, and the Ark's fate remains unknown due to lack of access to sites where it may be located.

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    Ark of the Covenant: Many Legends, No Evidence

    By Richard A. Lovett and Scot Hoffman

    For centuries, people have tried in vain to locate and recover the
    Bible's most sacred objects. Among the most sought-after of these
    religious antiquities is the famed Ark of the Covenant.

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    Illustration of the Ark of the Covenant
    Photograph by Hulton Archive/Getty Images

    This legendary artifact is the ornate, gilded case built some 3,000
    years ago by the Israelites to house the stone tablets on which the
    Ten Commandments were written. Biblical accounts describe the Ark
    as large, about the size of a 19th-century seaman's chest, made of
    gold-plated wood, and topped with two large, golden angels. It was
    carried using poles inserted through rings on its sides.

    The Ark has been linked to several of the Old Testament's miracles. It
    was carried before the Israelites during the Exodus and is said to
    have cleared impediments and poisonous animals from their path.
    When the Israelites crossed the Jordan River into the Promised Land,
    the Bible says that the river stopped flowing the moment the Ark-
    bearers set foot in it.

    And when the Israelites besieged Jericho, they carried the Ark around
    the city for a week, blowing trumpets until, on the seventh day, the
    walls fell down, allowing easy conquest.
    But in 597 and 586 B.C., the Babylonian Empire conquered the
    Israelites, and the Ark, at the time supposedly stored in the Temple in
    Jerusalem, vanished from history. Destroyed? Captured? Hidden?
    Nobody knows.

    Ethiopian Connection?

    One of the strongest claims about the Ark's whereabouts is that


    before the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem, it had found its way to
    Ethiopia, where it still resides in the town of Aksum, in the St. Mary of
    Zion cathedral. Church authorities, however, say only one man, the
    guardian of the Ark, is allowed to see it, and they have never
    permitted it to be studied for authenticity.

    Another claim is that the Ark was hidden in a warren of passages


    beneath the First Temple in Jerusalem before the Babylonians
    destroyed it in 586 B.C. But that theory can't be tested either,
    because the site is home to the Dome of the Rock shrine, sacred in
    Islam. Digging beneath it simply isn't an option.

    A third claim came from the late Ron Wyatt, an amateur archaeologist
    who said that in 1982 he found the Ark beneath the hill on which
    Christ was crucified. Blood from the crucifixion, he claimed, had
    dripped from the cross through a fissure in the rock and onto the Ark.
    But nobody has ever seen it again, and Wyatt also claimed a number
    of other archaeological finds that most scholars find dubious.

    "Perhaps the most famous quest for the Ark was on the big screen. In
    the 1981 movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, adventure hero Indiana
    Jones must find the Ark before the Nazis, who intend to use its power
    for world domination.

    Searches for such biblical relics are compelling, says archaeologist


    and National Geographic Society fellow Fred Hiebert, but ultimately
    doomed to failure. Even if there is an ancient, Ark-like object in
    Ethiopia, he asks, how do you determine it's the one from the Bible?

    "We are talking about things [at] the crossroads between myth and
    reality," he said. "I think it's great to have stories like [that of] the Ark
    of the Covenant. But I do not believe, as a field archaeologist, that we
    can use the scientific method to prove or disprove [them]."

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