Article: ARK OF COVENANT REPORTED TO BE IN ETHIOPIA

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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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