According to legend, the Ark protected the Israelites on their way ba ck to the Promised Land, warding off poisonous animals and stopping the flow of the Jordan River.

The Ark of the Covenant is a chest for the original engraved tablets of ... the Jordan River stopped flowing and remained still while a group of priests ... BibleArtLibrary via Getty Images) ...

"I think it's great to have stories like [that of] the Ark of the Covenant. But I do not believe, as a field archaeologist, that we can use the scientific method to prove or disprove [them]." This ...

A British aristocrat looking for the Ark of the Covenant launched history's most peculiar archaeological dig—and set off a crisis in the Middle East ...

It is written in Exodus 25:10: ‘And they shall make an ark of acacia wood; two and a half cubits shall be its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.’ The Ark of the ...

According to the Bible, the Israelites crafted the Ark of the Covenant in the Sinai desert after leaving Egypt. Its vanishing coincided with the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 587 BC.