5 Lesser-Known Facts About The Ark Of The Covenant Featured In Indiana Jones Movie; Why Is CIA After The Relic

Per Rabbis Shlomo Goren and Yehuda Getz, it could have been concealed beneath the temple mount before the Babylonian captivity under Nebuchadnezzar’s reign. The mount is now home to the Dome of the Rock. 

In his 1992 book The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant, former East African correspondent for “The Economist,” Graham Hancock, stated that it could have been tucked safely in  Saint Mary of Zion’s Church in Aksum, an ancient Ethiopian city. Here’s where the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) comes into the picture, which allegedly used remote viewers to locate the Ark of the Covenant.