The Church of St. Mary of Zion in Axum, Ethiopia, is where the sacred Ark of the Covenant is believed to be housed. Shutterstock / Artush. According to legend, the ark was brought to Ethiopia in ...

According to Ethiopian lore, the Ark of the Covenant is hidden in a church in Aksum–a small city in the northern highlands–and guarded by a single monk.

Religious traditionNobody knows where the actual Ark of the Covenant is hiding, or whether it really exists. According to the Hebrew Bible, when this holy chest was first built, it held tablets ...

For millennia, the ark's whereabouts, said to possess magical powers and bring death to those who touch it, have been enigmatic. Ethiopian Christians contend that the Ark of the Covenant resides ...

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 he saw was what you find in any Ethiopian church, which is a model of the Ark of the Covenant,' Tudor Parfitt, a British historian, writer and former colleague of Ullendorff, told Live ...

The real Ark of the Covenant is actually believed to be in Axum, a small town in Ethiopia. ... In every town across the country, a replica of the ark is kept in an Ethiopian Orthodox church.

Is this Ethiopian monk guarding the Ark of the Covenant? Don’t bet on it. According to some, the Ark is hidden within the belly of the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, in Aksum, Ethiopia.

"I think it's great to have stories like [that of] the Ark of the Covenant. But I do not believe, as a field archaeologist, that we can use the scientific method to prove or disprove [them]." This ...

Over the past few days, several media outlets have reported on a centuries-old claim that the Ark of the Covenant — which allegedly held tablets recording the Ten Commandments — is inside a ...