Over the past few days, several media outlets have reported on a centuries-old claim that the Ark of the Covenant — which allegedly held tablets recording the Ten Commandments — is inside a church in ...

Thanks to Hollywood's "Raiders of the Lost Ark," the Ark of the Covenant is one of the most famous objects in the Bible. It's also one of the most mysterious, since the Bible doesn't say what happened ...

In Axum, there's no mystery about what's become of the lost biblical Ark of the Covenant. Like the vast majority of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians, nearly everyone in this dusty, windswept town ...

Bible scholars believe the legendary Ark of the Covenant may have landed in Africa after it was taken out of Israel. The Ark is said to be a gold-covered wooden chest containing two stone tablets on ...

Ethiopian priests and monks walk during the annual festival of Timkat in Lalibela, Ethiopia. The festival celebrates the Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River. During Timkat, the Tabot, a model of the ...

The mind tends to wander when you're trying to catch a glimpse of the only man on Earth who's allowed to see the Ark of the Covenant, the shiny gold box said to hold the tablets of the Ten ...

The Ark of the Covenant was trending on Google on Thursday morning, and it’s not because there’s a new Indiana Jones movie on the way. The sacred object is in the news because a CIA document about it ...

Like another famous swashbuckling treasure hunter, he has a fear of snakes. He’s not adverse to associating with mystics, charlatans and crooks in his quest for prized artifacts. But unlike his ...

Many archaeologists have spent their lives searching for the Ark of the Covenant, but a prophecy in a banned book of the Bible may reveal when it will be found. The Apocalypse of Baruch, a two-part ...

Like another famous swashbuckling treasure hunter, he has a fear of snakes. He’s not averse to associating with mystics, charlatans and crooks in his quest for prized artifacts. But unlike his ...

On Aug. 31, exactly 100 years after its dedication, the Church of Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant was reopened for worship on the hill of Kiryat Yearim, nine miles from Jerusalem. The church, ...