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The Whereabouts of the Lost Ark of the Covenant

Historical Blindness

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The Origins of the Ark of the Covenant

There is no evidence that the Ark of the Covenant was ever brought to Egypt. In fact the verse in Kings mentions only vague treasures. Graham Hancock favors the notion it was carried out of Jerusalem 100 years before the coming of the Babylonians, to protect it from a sacrilegious king. But as Tudor Parfett points out, the papayri discovered in the 19th century by American journalist Charles Edwin Wilbur makes no mention of its arrival at Elephantani. So despite what raiders may have led us to believe, all claims about theArk of the Covenant reside for lack of evidence.

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