The Lost Ark Of The Covenant

The Lost Ark Of The Covenant by Tudor Parfitt The Lost Ark
of the Covenant is the real-life account of an astounding
quest—professor Tudor Parfitts effort to recover the
revered artifact that contained the Ten Commandments
sacred to Judaism Christianity and Islam. This holy object
disappeared from the Temple when the Babylonians invaded
Jerusalem in 586 BC and was lost—apparently forever.
According to the biblical account the Ark was built at the
command of God in accord with Mosess prophetic vision on
Mount Sinai. The Ark believed to be the throne of God was
carried by the Israelite high priests in the wilderness
during their harrowing search for a homeland. When the
Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem the Ark entered the domain
of legend. The mysterious disappearance of arguably the
most important religious artifact in history led to a
plethora of theories about the location of the Ark. Its
whereabouts unknown adventurers risked their lives and
fortunes for over two millennia in attempts to discover
this sacred treasure. With painstaking historical
scholarship groundbreaking genetic science and
hair-raising fieldwork Parfitt who the Wall Street Journal
calls a British Indiana Jones debunks the previous myths
and reveals the shocking history of the Ark and its
keepers. From Israel to Egypt Ethiopia and the ruins of
Great Zimbabwe the journey leads to places Parfitt could
never have imagined. He encounters a cannibalistic tribe
in Papua New Guinea. He is ambushed and shot at in Africa.
And he narrowly escapes being kidnapped by Islamist
outlaws in the wilder reaches of Yemen.Throughout his
search he is aided by a motley crew of kabbalistic mystics
Muslim holy men charlatans and crooks tribal elders and
scheming politicians. The Lost Ark of the Covenant is a
vivid and page-turning account of the culmination of two
decades of research by an acclaimed scholar and
adventurer. In the end legend becomes reality as an
unknown history comes to light and with it our
understanding of this lost treasure is changed forever.