Article: MEET THE REAL INDIANA JONES; Respected Hebrew lecturer Tudor Parfitt, from Porth, South Wales, tells JAMES McCARTHY he solved a search made famous by Stephen Spielberg's Indiana Jones' when he discovered the Lost Ark of the Covenant in a dusty museum in Harare, Zimbabwe...(Features)

Byline: By JAMES MCCARTHY

A REAL life Indiana Jones has told of the moment he believed he finally found the Lost Ark made famous by the Stephen Spielberg movies.

Tudor Parfitt, a respected Hebrew lecturer at the University of London, spent 25 years trying to find the ancient religious relic. Regarded as the holiest object in the world by the Jews, it mysteriously vanished more than 2,500 years ago from Jerusalem.

The priceless, pure gold casket was said to have contained the 10 Commandments given to Moses by God at Mount Sinai.

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