They were slaughtered trying to stop real-life raiders of the lost ark — an artifact so powerful and holy they were forbidden from ever seeing it. The harrowing mass-murder of at least 800 ...

The Ark of the Covenant is a chest for the original engraved ... Ethiopia and is now at the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum. Supposedly, only the Guardian of the Ark is allowed to view ...

At least 800 people were reportedly killed in Ethiopia as worshippers and soldiers risked their lives to protect what Christians there say is the sacred Ark of the Covenant from local militia.

What we have concluded is that St. Mary’s of Zion church in Axum, Ethiopia, is the resting place either of an incredible replica of the biblical Ark of the Covenant, or of the actual Ark of the ...

Ethiopian Christians contend that the Ark of the Covenant resides in a chapel within the small town of Axum, where they believe it arrived nearly three millennia ago, watched over by a group of ...

The real Ark of the Covenant is actually believed to be in Axum, a small town in Ethiopia. Written texts have it that the ark, the repository of the Ten Commandments tablets that God gave to Moses ...

Those memories haunt a deacon at the country’s most sacred Ethiopian Orthodox church in Axum, where local faithful believe the ancient Ark of the Covenant is housed. As Ethiopia’s Tigray ...

6. An Ethiopian Orthodox Church The Chapel of the Tablet at the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum, a city in Northern Ethiopia, claims to have the Ark of the Covenant. The Ethiopian Orthodox ...

The Ark of the Covenant (no, not the Indiana Jones movie ... the Ark’ at the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in the city of Axum in Ethiopia. However many other researchers were quick to ...