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Article: A Real Life Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark.
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The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark By Tudor Parfitt Harper One, San Francisco, 2008, $25.95, pp.384
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Like the quest for the Holy Grail--the cup from which Jesus is said to have sipped at the Last Supper--the search for the lost Ark of the Covenant has inspired scholars and adventurers since it vanished following the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 587 BC. Accounts differ, but reports in Arabic and various texts suggested that the Israelites still marched with the Ark at the head of their armies long after its putative disappearance. The legend is that as long as they ...