How does the Lost Ark of the Covenant fit into the puzzle?
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg acquainted the viewing public with one of the great mysteries of all time, the fate of the Lost Ark of the Covenant, the ancient Israelite repository of divine authority. While Spielberg portrays Hitler’s Reich lusting after the Ark, fictionally, the Templars probably attempted to find the Ark in reality. Graham Hancock’s The Sign and the Seal points convincingly to Templars having pursued the Lost Ark from Jerusalem to its alleged final resting place in Ethiopia. Hancock argues that the Ark itself may have been the enigmatic Holy Grail, and that romancers encoded within their texts the Templar’s secret mission to find and harness its holy power. Bearing in mind that in the Middle Ages possessing the Ark would have meant wielding the power of God, doing so would have established the Knights Templar as THE dominant force on earth, the pope notwithstanding. With evidence of the Templars having excavated the Temple of Solomon, and then of their
