Ark Of The Covenant Found - Has the long lost Ark Of The Covenant been found after 2,500 years by a British version of Indiana Jones, Tudor Parfitt, a professor of Jewish studies at London’s prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies?
In his new book about the Ark Of The Covenant found at last - in of all places, the storeroom of the Victoria Museum in Harare, Zimbabwe - Tudor Parfitt describes his twenty-year search for the legendary artifact which is central to so many faiths including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
The Lost Ark Of The Covenant author Tudor Parfitt on Today Show:
In the late 1980’s, Parfitt’s research helped document a DNA link between the obscure Lemba Tribe in southern Africa - whose oral history claims they are the legendary lost tribe of Israel - and the priestly lineage of Jerusalem, i.e. the descendants of King David.
During the next two decades, his quest led from Israel to Egypt, Ethiopia, Yemen, and even New Guinea, before eventually leading him back to the Lemba tribe in Zimbabwe. Along the way, Parfitt is ambushed and shot at in Africa and narrowly escapes being kidnapped by Islamist extremists in the deserts of Yemen.
In the end, the Ark Of The Covenant found by Tudor Parfitt is a 650-year old copy of the original Ark, which the Lemba tribe’s oral tradition states burst into flames and burned until only a small piece remained.
A small opening in the Lemba ngoma was said to have incorporated the only remaining piece of the original Ark Of The Covenant, now long since disintegrated.
Known as the Von Sicard ngoma for it’s discovery 60 years ago by Swedish missionary Harald Von Sicard buried in a cave near the Limpopo river in Lemba tribal territory, the religious artifact eventually ended up in a cluttered storeroom at the Victoria Museum in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Parfitt’s book entitled “The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500 Year Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark” was published February 26th. The History Channel will also air a special based in part on Parfitt’s work - “The Quest for the Lost Ark” - which airs on March 2.
And that’s the latest news on the Ark Of The Covenant found.
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March 8th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Thank God its in Zimbabwe. Pleave it therer for God knows more than any pne of us why it is there . Obiously its in the most capable hands.
April 27th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Irregardless of the amount of time that has passed, the Arc was covered in gold, somehow I don’t see that falling to dust or being burned to ash even after all this time. I’m reminded of many other “great” archeological discoveries where some infintesimal piece of flotsum is given supposed signifigance by a person who has wasted their life in rabbit warrens and goose chases gets overzelous in trying to go out with some discovery or another to stick something in the face of all the people who have tried to get them to devote their time to something more productive.
July 21st, 2008 at 12:53 am
Leave it to the History Channel to ‘accurately’ report history. Glad they don’t sensationalize merely for ratings! Possibly a little more field research and less buying what the traveling author/salesman is peddling would go a long way towards rebuilding their credibility.
Fuzzy - irrespective or regardless - please, pick one, don’t combine. Second, pay attention to your spell checker. And lastly, you might have posted the longest run on sentence I have ever seen! Congratulations - your teachers and school system should be proud.