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Article: Texan Claims He's Found Lost Ark Site
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 29, 1994
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BET HA'ARAVA, West Bank - A Texas Bible scholar, who claims to
be the model for adventure film hero Indiana Jones, said Thursday
that he has found an ancient resting place of the lost Ark of the
Covenant. The Israeli government doubts it.
Vendyl Jones, who says he could dig up the ark itself if Israel
would let him, said he used space-age technology to discover stone
walls of a biblical city at Gilgal.
The Israeli Antiquities Authority, which two years ago ordered
the former Baptist minister from Arlington, Texas, to stop
excavations in the occupied West Bank, said he was not an
archaelogist.
It dismissed his claim that he could find the ark, a wooden
chest which Jewish tradition ...