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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to this belief, Ethiopian Orthodox Christians transported it to Axum through Menelik ... suggest the Templars hid the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia, while another theory suggests ...

The deacon, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because remains in Axum, says 800 people were murdered. Recommended 'We'll be left without families': Fear in Ethiopia's ...

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

As many as half a million people have descended on Ethiopia's sacred city of Aksum ... Orthodox Christians who say it is home to the Ark of the Covenant, believed to contain the 10 commandments ...