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Title: Part history--Part Folklore---very entertaining
Review: In the early 1990's,Graham Hancock undertakes a search for the Ark of the Covenant--i.e. the receptacle holding two stone tablets imprinted by God with the ten commandments. The search ultimately leads Graham to Axum, Ethiopia, reported to be the final resting place of the Ark.Through research and site vists, Graham explains how the Ark arrived in Ethiopia which contrasts with other theories that the Ark was destroyed by the Babylonians or that the prophet Jeremiah hid the Ark on Mt. Nebo.The book poses some interesting questions. For example:1. Did Moses devise the Ark based on an Egyptian prototype found in King Tut's tomb.2. Is there evidence that the Templars searched for the Ark in Ethiopia and did they find it?3. And, if this novel is nothing more than an elaborate fictional superstructure erected above some historical truths, what is its hidden meaning??
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