The Ark Of The Covenant

The True Story Of The Greatest Relic Of Antiquity

The Ark of the Covenant is one of the greatest mysteries of ancient history. It was built after God spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai - yet even though the Ark was said to possess the power of life and death, the Hebrew Bible contains no record of its fate. At the heart of the city of Aksum in northern Ethiopia there is a small chapel, its entrance constantly guarded. The Ark is said to lie beyond it. Beginning with the earliest accounts in the Bible the authors examine the royal cult of Zion, the destruction of the Temple, and Jewish legends that the Ark was buried beneath the Temple Mount or hidden in the tomb of Moses. This book is a journey through the ancient worlds of the Red Sea to the courts of Spain, France and England at the beginning of the modern world.