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Comment by David42 on June 26, 2009 at 12:12pm

The significance of revealing the Ark could lead the way for rebuilding the Temple in Jurusalem for the Jewish community to place it in. It could possibly lead to Muslim acceptance to the Temple being rebuilt. We all know about the prophecy and significance of the Temple being rebuilt...don't we?

Comment by Marklar on June 26, 2009 at 3:27am

It's not much of a distraction merely off topic and from my point of view archeologically interesting. It's symbolic associations from a religious point of view do not concern me at all aside from being part of the lore associated with the object.

For all I know some ancient Hebrew figured out how to make an Egyptian style Leyden jar that got wrapped up in a lot of priestly propaganda. The number of speculations on the arch's true nature for those who have tried to approach the possibilities scientifically are too voluminous to fully list but some I have run into include, it's a giant capacitor, filled with a radioctive substance, filled with a hypothetical form of mono-atomic gold, and many more. It would be interesting to see if the "ark" at Axum is indeed a technological device of the appropriate antiquity.

Of course a lot of Christians, Jews, and Muslims would likely take the fact that God didn't immediately jump out and start to tap dance on their faces as proof that it was not the "real" ark.

I've been fighting the NWO for many years now and if I indulge in a bit of archeological geekery now and then you'll just have to excuse me.

I wouldn't be so sure the Vatican would automatically have it if it exists or would even know it if they did. After all a few years back the Vatican retained several of the worlds top archeologists to search for the burial place of St. Peter. They worked for three years and finally found a plate set into one of the floor stones of St Peters Cathedral that says "Here lies Peter, Apostle, Martyr" so they pried up the floor stones and, sure enough, find a tomb. Seems to me they could have found it quicker by asking the cleaning staff.

On the other hand I always did tell people I want to be pope just so I could get my hands on the keys to the Vatican vaults - heaven on Earth for a true archeology or sociology geek. Just the stuff from South America could keep a researcher finding out new information (at least new to non-Vatican insiders) for several lifetimes I bet.

Comment by Marklar on June 24, 2009 at 8:14pm

Thanks Tweek, try reading the whole thing while highly speculative the book offers quite an interesting romp through ancient history. It's a wonderful tale of a journey rather than a destination.

It most probably is bullshit since the medeivel world claimed enough pieces of the true cross to build a wooden cathedral out of them but interesting nonetheless.