Graham Hancock

It's very precisely specified like a blueprint in the Book of Exodus. And then it does all this stuff. It shoots out jets of fire and kills completely innocent people. It kills 50,000 Philistines in the city of Ashdod when they briefly capture it from the Israelites and make the mistake of –

treating it like a tourist object, and they open the Ark of the Covenant and look inside, and suddenly everybody in that city is dying, and what they're dying of is cancerous tumors. This is described in the Old Testament. So it's intriguing that this object is so precisely specified and is reported to have done these terrible things. It's just insane that we know where it is.

treating it like a tourist object, and they open the Ark of the Covenant and look inside, and suddenly everybody in that city is dying, and what they're dying of is cancerous tumors. This is described in the Old Testament. So it's intriguing that this object is so precisely specified and is reported to have done these terrible things. It's just insane that we know where it is.

treating it like a tourist object, and they open the Ark of the Covenant and look inside, and suddenly everybody in that city is dying, and what they're dying of is cancerous tumors. This is described in the Old Testament. So it's intriguing that this object is so precisely specified and is reported to have done these terrible things. It's just insane that we know where it is.

Well, we know that I believe Ethiopia has a very strong claim to it, but that's all I can say because I've not seen it myself. I've been right outside the door of that sanctuary chapel several times.

Well, we know that I believe Ethiopia has a very strong claim to it, but that's all I can say because I've not seen it myself. I've been right outside the door of that sanctuary chapel several times.

Well, we know that I believe Ethiopia has a very strong claim to it, but that's all I can say because I've not seen it myself. I've been right outside the door of that sanctuary chapel several times.

That would be a good thought. Yeah.

That would be a good thought. Yeah.

That would be a good thought. Yeah.

That would be a good thought.

That would be a good thought.

That would be a good thought.

Yeah. And they all blame the Ark. And one of them, it's a resonant phrase, sticks in my memory. I asked him why. And he said, the Ark is a thing of fire. Just that. Did he describe it to you? He did describe it as a box, rather like the biblical description, unsurprisingly.

Yeah. And they all blame the Ark. And one of them, it's a resonant phrase, sticks in my memory. I asked him why. And he said, the Ark is a thing of fire. Just that. Did he describe it to you? He did describe it as a box, rather like the biblical description, unsurprisingly.

Yeah. And they all blame the Ark. And one of them, it's a resonant phrase, sticks in my memory. I asked him why. And he said, the Ark is a thing of fire. Just that. Did he describe it to you? He did describe it as a box, rather like the biblical description, unsurprisingly.

Wow. And, of course, gold is a very good insulator against radiation. I don't want to go too far down this track. To me, the fascinating thing is that Ethiopia is the only country in the world that actually claims to have the Ark of the Covenant. That it's central to religion and culture in Ethiopia today.

Wow. And, of course, gold is a very good insulator against radiation. I don't want to go too far down this track. To me, the fascinating thing is that Ethiopia is the only country in the world that actually claims to have the Ark of the Covenant. That it's central to religion and culture in Ethiopia today.

Wow. And, of course, gold is a very good insulator against radiation. I don't want to go too far down this track. To me, the fascinating thing is that Ethiopia is the only country in the world that actually claims to have the Ark of the Covenant. That it's central to religion and culture in Ethiopia today.

That there's much to support that argument, particularly in the form of the Falashas, the Ethiopian Jews, and their very ancient traditions about how they got to Ethiopia in the first place. In context of all of that, I think Ethiopia has a very good claim, very interesting claim, and that's why I wrote a book about it.