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BERLIN — It is only a breathless Hollywood script: treasure-hunter Indiana Jones races with German archaeologists to track down the fabled Ark of the Covenant, the chest that held the stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were etched. Now German researchers claim to have found the remains of the palace of the Queen of Sheba — and an altar that may have held the Ark. The discovery, announced by the University of Hamburg last week, has stirred skeptical rumblings from the archaeological community. The location of the Ark, indeed its existence, has been a source of controversy for centuries....

The leader of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church today backed off on a much-anticipated announcement about the Ark of the Covenant -- the ancient container holding the Ten Commandment -- which he claims to have seen. But no other evidence or, indeed, even any announcement, was made public today when word had been expected.

The Ark returns…I Samuel 6 Capture of the Ark pt 5 Then the cows headed straight for the road to Beth Shemesh and went along the highway lowing as they went , and did not turn aside to the right or to the left, and the Lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth Shemesh .Now the people of Beth Shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley, and they lifted up their eyes,and saw the ark and rejoiced to see it.(I Samuel 6:12-13) The Ark of the Covenant of God had been in exile...

Yesterday, millions were waiting to watch eagerly the Ark of the Covenant revealed. A day passed but it was not made public. “No, the ark is not going to be revealed. Nobody could touch it. If you do so, God will smite you.” Abune Paulos Aba Gebremedhin said. Paulos puts the blame on the Adnkronos journal, which originally posted the news, and rectification later on. "…I am here to say what I saw, what I know and I can testify. I did not say that the Ark will be shown to the world.” Paulos is quoted to say on Adnkronos...

The Capture of the Ark pt 3 I Samuel 5 The Future History of the Gentiles Bill Randles The story of the capture of the Ark of God, contains not only history, as we have seen, but also Gospel, and Eschatology. We pointed out in our last article that the future history of Israel was outlined in the double defeats by the Philistines, and the loss of the Ark. The first defeat, in which 4000 Israelites were killed in battle, corresponds to the Babylonian captivity and the destruction of Solomon’s temple. It was devastating, but Israel did return from captivity...

The capture of the Ark pt 1 THE WHOLE FUTURE OF ISRAEL “And the word of Samuel went forth to all Israel.” I Sam 4:1 I Samuel 4-6 recounts the story of the time that the Ark of the Covenant of God was captured in battle by the Philistines. The events in the story actually happened in time, but like so much of the Biblical narrative, it also has a prophetic element to it. The “Word of Samuel” really does “go forth to all Israel”, not only to his own generation but it reaches down to Israel at the very...

A Lead on the Ark of the Covenant Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008 By DAVID VAN BIEMAThe Ark of the Covenant is carried into the Temple When last we saw the lost Ark of the Covenant in action, it had been dug up by Indiana Jones in Egypt and ark-napped by Nazis, whom the Ark proceeded to incinerate amidst a tempest of terrifying apparitions. But according to Tudor Parfitt, a real life scholar-adventurer, Raiders of the Lost Ark had it wrong, and the Ark is actually nowhere near Egypt. In fact, Parfitt claims he has traced it (or a replacement container...