FINAL WARNING: The Shining Star
flowed down to the ground, through a split in the rock, and onto the
Ark.Most serious researchers doubt his claim, saying that, as far back as
the first Temple, the area of Mt. Calvary was used as burial grounds, so
it is highly unlikely that the Ark would have been placed on defiled
ground. Scholars have questioned his lack of archaeological training,
and his techniques; yet Wyatt’s work gained more acceptance because
of other discoveries, such as the true Mt. Sinai, the location on the Red
Sea crossing, Noah’s Ark, the 12 altars erected by Moses, Sodom and
Gomorrah, and Abraham’s family tomb in Hebron. Plus, his work has
produced the most information on the Ark, all of which seems to be
compatible with Scripture.Dr. Gary Collett believes that Maccabees actually refers to Qumran,
and says that the layout of Cave IV is similar to the Temple, and that its
lower level may have been the containment room used by Jeremiah to
temporarily protect the Ark. In 1992, two scientists from the
Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science at Tel-Aviv
University used a ground-breaking radar known as a molecular
frequency analyzer and a seismic-reflection device near two caves at
the Wadi la-Chippah (‘the dome of the bridge’) which indicated the
presence of a room containing the same sort of pottery known to
contain scrolls. Preliminary trenches dug in 1993 failed to turn up
anything substantial.Once Christianity became the official religion of Rome, the treasures
plundered by its legions fell into the possession of the Catholic
Church. Nelson Canode, of Amarillo, Texas, a former Benedictine
monk at a monastery at Subiaco, Italy, about 30 miles from Rome, said
that he was taken to a cave, four levels below the monastery, where
ancient artifacts were being shuttled from there to the underground
vaults of the Vatican, and included the Ark and the disassembled
Tabernacle. There are many who believe that once Jerusalem becomes
an international city, the Vatican will return any Temple items in their
possession.Because of the research done by Graham Hancock for his book The
Sign and the Seal, some people think the Ark may be in Ethiopia.
Menelik I, the royal son of King Solomon, returned to Ethiopia, after his