They were slaughtered trying to stop real-life raiders of the lost ark — an artifact so powerful and holy they were forbidden from ever seeing it. The harrowing mass-murder of at least 800 ...

And during my trip, it became clear that this veneration of the church was born from a belief that Ethiopia has been chosen by God as the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant.

A longstanding religious legend in Ethiopia describes how the Ark of the Covenant was brought there 3,000 years ago by a man named Menelik, the son of the Queen of Sheba and Israel’s King Solomon.

[Religious Mysteries: 8 Alleged Relics of Jesus] There is a long-standing religious legend in Ethiopia that describes how the Ark of the Covenant was brought to Ethiopia 3,000 years by a man named ...

Another narrative, currently gaining credence, asserts that the Ark of the Covenant found its way to Ethiopia and now resides in the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion. According to this belief ...

Not only does Ethiopia have a high concentration of ... Here's what we know about those declassified CIA files containing Ark of the Covenant information. It's hard to say, but the files do ...

Did the CIA use psychics to locate the Ark of the Covenant, one of the world’s ... ranging from it being hidden in Ethiopia or somewhere in the Middle East to the fictional account that placed ...

Another legend says the chest was taken to Ethiopia and is now inside a local church. US government has known where the Ark is for years While in common knowledge the Covenant of the Ark is ...

First mentioned in the Book of Exodus, the Ark of the Covenant is described as a “two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high” box made from acacia wood.

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 ...