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Article: ARK OF COVENANT REPORTED TO BE IN ETHIOPIA
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- October 29, 2002
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Ark of Covenant reported to be in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Oct 29, 2002 (United Press International via
COMTEX) -- Remember Indiana Jones in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"? It
turns out the movie was probably wrong about where to search for the
religious artifact. The real Ark of the Covenant is actually believed
to be in Axum, a small town in Ethiopia.
Written texts have it that the ark, the repository of the Ten Commandments
tablets that God gave to Moses, was taken to Ethiopia by Menelik,
son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba around 1000 B.C., says Richard
Pankhurst, a British scholar who has lived in Ethiopia more than half
of his 60-odd years. It's ...
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