In search of the Ark. Explorer Vendyl Jones, among others, believes that an artifact found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, “Copper Scroll” of Qumran Cave 3, is actually a treasure map of sorts detailing the location of a number of precious treasures taken from the temple before the Babylonians arrived, among them the lost Ark of the Covenant. Whether or not this is true remains to be seen. http://andnowyouknowmore.blogspot.com April 1999 Popular Mechanic article about the Scroll. It was their opinion that the Ark was in one of the Qumran caves, and had sponsored a search for it. In South Africa, the Lemba people claim they have the Ark in a cave high in the Dumghe Mountains. Rumors have it that it is buried on Oak Island, a 140-acre plot of land off the coast of Nova Scotia. Former East African correspondent for “The Economist,” Graham Hancock, published a book in 1992 entitled The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant, in which he argued that the ark had been stowed away in Saint Mary of Zion's Church in Aksum, an ancient city of Ethiopia. …show more content…
Later Menelik went to visit his father, and on his return journey was accompanied by the firstborn sons of some Israelite nobles, who, with out the knowledge of Menelik, stole the ark and carried it with them to Ethiopia. When Menelik learned of the theft, he reasoned that since the ark's frightful powers hadn't destroyed his retinue, it must be God's will that it remain with him. It was then presumably kept in the islands of Lake Tana for about four hundred years and finally taken to Axum, where it was kept safe for more than two thousand