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The Whereabouts of the Lost Ark of the Covenant

Historical Blindness

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The Sign in the Seal by Graham Hancock

The Our Fake History Podcast explores a popular Ethiopian myth about the Ark of the Covenant. The story is that King Solomon lost it to a thief who carried it to Ethiopia, where it has resided ever since. Historians and scholars mostly find that there is no evidence that the Queen of Sheba ever existed, except as a literary character. And third, the story appears most likely to be a medieval fiction fabricated as propaganda to legitimize the divine right of Ethiopian kings or enhance the glories of the Ethiopian Church.

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