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Review of Unexplained + Unexplored S01E05: Hunt for the Ark of the Covenant

12/9/2019

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Watching cable television today, it’s easy to think that the search for the Ark of the Covenant has dominated archaeology and historiography for the past 2,500 years. Yet a review of the Euro-American literature finds that this wasn’t really the case at all. The Ark is rarely mentioned down to the twentieth century except in religious discussions of Old Testament times. Indeed, Anglican clergyman William Henry Havergal’s sixth lecture on the Ark of the Covenant, presented in the 1860s, “In the total loss of the ark, and in the entire demolition of the Jewish system, let us discern the low estimate which God sets upon his most exalted institutions, in comparison with the living realities, which they were intended to foreshadow” (emphasis in original). In other words, Christians believed that the Ark wasn’t important because it was a mere forerunner of Christ, who replaced it. Indeed, in the 1890s, writers made fairly frequent reference to the Ark of the Covenant being kept in Axum, Ethiopia, and basically nobody cared. Even when Fascist Italy conquered Ethiopia, they did not bother to go after the Ark.
So what changed? Well, ancient astronaut theorists like Erich von Däniken started probing the Bible for miracles that might be interpreted as technological wonders, and the Ark’s ability to zap people dead fit the bill. This, in turn, inspired Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, who had read Chariots of the Gods, and they drew from it in developing Raiders of the Lost Ark. Once the Indiana Jones movie popularized the Ark, the floodgates opened and suddenly everyone from Graham Hancock to Scott Wolter to Evangelical adventurers started hunting the Ark everywhere from Jerusalem to Ethiopia to America.
 
And now Justin “Baron Ambrosia” Fornal and Emiliano Ruprah have added their flailing efforts to three decades of failure in another futile quest to find the Ark. To do so, they apparently bought a used copy of Graham Hancock’s The Sign and the Seal and recreated his journey to Ethiopia in search of the Ark. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen a cable documentary do exactly the same thing. We saw it on a 2016 episode of Forbidden History, a 2013 episode of Ancient Aliens, and I know that there were a few stand-alone specials I’ve seen over the years, though their titles escape me.
 
To hunt the Ark, our heroes use a map they claim had been drawn by the geographer al-Idrisi (though, since they use only old sources, they pronounce his name as El Edrissi, following Victorian standards). The map shown on screen, however, is in English, a strange miracle considering al-Idrisi was a Moroccan Arab working in Norman Sicily. The map is a nineteenth century historical reference map of Egypt and the Middle East. I have a copy of it in one of the books on my bookshelf. I have seen it many a time. It is most certainly not al-Idrisi’s world map, of which only six medieval or early modern copies exist, most made centuries after the original had been lost. I’ve worked with digital scans of al-Idrisi’s map many times, especially in tracing the history of the Mountains of the Moon and in translating the geography section of the Akhbar al-zaman, so I know it well. They are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MAPS. For being a supposed map “expert,” Fornal is a lying asshole who is either utterly ignorant of his topic or happy to fabricate evidence for the cameras without concern for the audience.
 
For comparison, I provide at left (or at top if you are reading this on your phone) the map shown on TV and at right a 1456 copy of al-Idrisi’s 1154 map:
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Our heroes declare Egypt to be Israel’s “one true ally,” which I imagine is a surprise to the Jews, for whom Egypt was the historical enemy from the Exodus as well as one of the great powers that worked to destroy the Kingdom of Judah in their battle with the Babylonians. Judah suffered as a vassal of Egypt, according to the Biblical account, though this could occasionally be used to help counter Assyrian and Babylonian incursions, at least until Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem. They at least got right the fact that many expelled Jews from the diaspora did escape to Egypt, but only because it was the enemy of their enemy, not because Egypt was their “one true” friend. This, of course, depends on how much credence you give the Biblical history.
 
Our friends examine the case of the Elephantine papyri, which established that a Jewish settlement had been established by the Achaemenid (Persian) pharaohs on Egypt’s Elephantine Island in the 600s BCE, but these papyri do not directly establish immigration from Jerusalem after Nebuchadnezzar a century later, nor do they mention the Ark. Our heroes visit Elephantine and gawk in awe at its ruins, and in so doing they subtly transition from asking if the Jews brought the Ark to Elephantine to assuming that they did and then asking where they would have taken it next to escape the Babylonians that they claim were chasing them. This part isn’t true. The Babylonians hadn’t invaded Egypt since 605 BCE, and the Elephantine temple was destroyed in 410, during a dispute over land with people living nearby. They are creating a dramatic narrative of Babylonian menace where one doesn’t exist. The Persians were still in charge.
 
In explaining their reasoning for assuming that the Jews headed to Ethiopia, they rely on what they call Ptolemy’s world map, but they show a 1482 reconstruction based on Ptolemy’s Geography. Everything about this segment is basically wrong. The Jews of c. 400 BCE were certainly not using Ptolemy’s world map in any form. The 1482 version used here is 1,800 years too late, but Ptolemy himself developed his geography around 150 CE, some 550 years after the events our blundering hosts are attempting to retrace. After a commercial they admit that Ptolemy’s map originated in 150 CE, but somehow, they are OK with conflating 400 BCE and 150 CE, revising their analysis to allege that the Ark left Egypt “at some point,” without specifying when that might be. The show also cheerfully elides the complex history of Jews and Christians in Ethiopia, happily assuming that the audience will not question why a Jewish relic is now in Christian hands, since the audience will likely accept unhesitatingly the suggestion that Christianity inevitably replaced Judaism and succeeded to its divine mysteries.
 
The men visit the island of Tana Qirqos, an island in Lake Tana, which has appeared in many previous Ark-hunting documentaries. It’s an old religious settlement where supposed relics of the Ark, including the altar of the Ark and the priest’s breastplate, are storied. Nothing is different on this visit except that with each new documentary claiming “outsiders” are forbidden to visit and no one can see the artifacts, the collection of idiots who have been let in to film grows and the credibility of the monks hiding inside declines. Really, how sacred can it be if any nutjob with cash can come and take pictures? Our idiots are slack-jawed, believing themselves in the presence of Biblical treasures, questioning nothing, though the writers for the show dutifully forced Fornal to say “locals believe” before their extreme claims.
 
Our heroes visit Axum to stand in awe before the church where the Ark is kept, and they act like this is a shocking revelation. As I mentioned, the Victorians wrote about it without apparent interest, and I’ll add that the Coptic clergyman Abu Al-Makarim mentioned it in his History of Churches and Monasteries around 1200 CE. Today, the Ethiopians claim that the Ark is too sacred for anyone to see, but in medieval times that wasn’t the case. Abu Al-Makarim saw it taken out for a religious ritual, or else had a report from someone who had:
The Abyssinians possess also the Ark of the Covenant, in which are the two tables of stone, inscribed by the finger of God with the commandments which he ordained for the children of Israel. The Ark of the Covenant is placed upon the altar, but is not so wide as the altar; it is as high as the knee of a man, and is overlaid with gold; and upon its lid there are crosses of gold; and there are five precious stones upon it, one at each of the four corners, and one in the middle. The liturgy is celebrated upon the Ark four times in the year, within the palace of the king; and a canopy is spread over it when it is taken out from [its own] church to the church which is in the palace of the king…. (Fol. 105a-106b, trans. B. T. A. Evetts).
So, anyway, that’s what’s apparently in the church in Axum, though whether the original or a copy, there is no way to tell. The Ethiopians did, however, have a golden box, apparently. But our heroes believe that the Ethiopians are liars who were “clever” and created propaganda to make people think that the Ark is in Axum when in reality they have hidden it in a church carved into the side of a mountain 1,500 years ago. They climb the mountain, complaining of the difficulty of the climb, though the observant viewer would note that the cameraman had no difficulty preceding them up the rock face to film them. At the top of the mountain, they visit the rock-cut church, which is interesting and beautiful on its own, but which has no relationship to the Ark. The whole adventure was a huge waste of time.
 
Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum conclude that the Ark is likely hidden “somewhere close,” though they decline to provide any reasoning for this “gut” feeling. Even though the holy men in the church explicitly told our heroes that the Ark is not there, they nevertheless end the show by triumphantly announcing that they had discovered “a brand-new location [where] the Ark may have been hidden” and ludicrously claiming that their failed pseudo-documentary has paved the way for the Ark to “someday be found.”
 
Long and short of it: (a) The supposed location of the Ark has been commonly known since medieval times. (b) Basically, nobody in the West cared until Indiana Jones made the Ark popular again. (c) Cable TV hosts have done a worse job “finding” the Ark than medieval priests. (d) I have seen more or less this exact same episode at least four times, and I wish that cable would get off its lazy ass and stop remaking the same shows over and over again. (e) If you are going to make it anyway, at least pretend like you give a shit about the facts you are pretending to use. I can’t fathom why the production company would spring for an all-expenses paid trip to Egypt and Ethiopia and then fake all the evidence that brought them there. The whole conceit of the show is maps, so I expected that the MAPS would be one thing they would actually get right.
32 Comments
Joe Scales
12/9/2019 03:17:41 pm

"Fornal is a lying asshole who is either utterly ignorant of his topic or happy to fabricate evidence for the cameras without concern for the audience."

Having caught a bit of an earlier episode, I'd have to lean towards ignorance.

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Nonsense
12/9/2019 04:07:02 pm

There never was any Ark of the Covenant because the story of the Exodus is fake. The Jews borrowed their religion from Egypt and then denied it by inventing the story of the Exodus.

When the Romans invaded and conquered Judea and entered the Temple of Jerusalem and the Holy of Holies where the Ark was traditionally kept, the Holy of Holies was empty.

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Kent
12/10/2019 05:31:20 pm

Perhaps you'd like to outline for us the similarities of "the religion" of the Hebrews of Biblical times with "the religion" of Egypt.

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Bob Sunman
12/11/2019 04:48:00 am

Why should the ark story be borrowed?Come to that - why should the ark not be in Wales where there is a hollow hill which was guarded by a monastery and a nunnery? If the 10 tribes of the khumri (see Capt) migrated from Syria north west to Brittany and Britain, then they would have brought iot with them.

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Bob Sunman
12/13/2019 09:34:31 am

For those who doubt the Exode, I would refer you to the inscriptions in the Wadi Moqqateb and the Djel Moqqateb which you are welcome to visit. First recorded by Kosmas Indico Pleustes, subsequently investigated by the Rev Charles M. Forster.

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Hunting Snark
12/9/2019 04:08:02 pm

I am amazed at the writer's ability to discern what books strangers have read, and within that, what books they have bought, and within that, whether the books were bought new or used.

El Idrissi: the writer would be well-advised to consider that Arabic has only three vowels. This is not a problem. It's like arguing about "General Tso's Chicken."

Egypt? The country Israel has a treaty with? The Egyptian based events of Exodus didn't happen, so there's that sorted. One might well argue that Saudi Arabia is closer to being an ally these days.

"The show also cheerfully elides the complex history of Jews and Christians in Ethiopia" as does the writer.

"Today, the Ethiopians claim that the Ark is too sacred for anyone to see, but in medieval times that wasn’t the case. Abu Al-Makarim saw it taken out for a religious ritual, or else had a report from someone who had"

Of course if anyone involved was lying that all goes out the window doesn't it? But we know no one lied in medieval times don't we?

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how many more arks ???
12/9/2019 04:13:40 pm

Are you really sure there is only one church In the world that claims it has got the Ark

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Ark, Ark...
12/9/2019 04:33:50 pm

The Ark plays such an important role within Ethiopian Orthodoxy that the eucharist is celebrated over a miniature copy of the Ark (called a Tabot) in every Ethiopian church. (John Anthony McGuckin, The Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity)

Jim Davis
12/9/2019 05:05:47 pm

The map shown on TV looks like it came out of William R. Shepherd's Historical Atlas which was a popular reference throughout the 20th century. Maybe it it still is.

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Jim
12/9/2019 10:17:55 pm

Half of their target audience are saying,,,"Wait, what,,,, we used al-Idrisi’s 1154 map in high school ?"

They are not even trying. Are they assuming that their audience is made up of complete morons ?

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Kent
12/10/2019 01:16:32 am

It bears mentioning that El-Idrissi's map has South at the top, North at the bottom, West on the right and East on the left.

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Historicity of Myth
12/10/2019 04:17:33 am

And this blogger believes in the historicity of the Exodus that is rejected by many Biblical scholars. But what can you expect from churchgoers.

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Believe in anything
12/10/2019 04:20:01 am

Indeed - those who were responsible for fabricating the myth of the Exodus were lying assholes themselves.

Historical Pedigree
12/10/2019 04:31:00 am

It figures that if the Ark is an essential part of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity that a historical pedigree for the Ark would have been created. There's nothing complicated about this.

Kent
12/10/2019 12:30:41 pm

So time-traveling Jesuits wrote Exodus?

archeology
12/10/2019 02:46:17 pm

archaeological evidence is lacking to justify the piffle of Exodus and besides the whole Bible is contrived anyway, written from the standpoint of God's Will on his Chosen People.

Kent
12/10/2019 03:07:31 pm

Because as we know, everything everywhere has been excavated.

I agree Exodus is fake but perhaps you'd like to tell the class how it was written to bolster Christianity?

Out of Egypt Have I Called My Son
12/10/2019 03:49:30 pm

There it is
The parallel between Exodus and liberation from Roman Occupation

Kent
12/10/2019 04:14:42 pm

You know that's crazy talk, right?

Out of Egypt
12/10/2019 04:50:46 pm

Literalised myth is crazy
There was no "Line of David" after the diaspora, yet they claimed it existed during Tiberius !!

Jeff Miller
12/10/2019 01:07:05 pm

I've been watching this show. These guys are even sadder, more boring versions of Scot Wolter. And that's saying a lot.

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Gwynn Severt
12/10/2019 06:47:25 pm

Josh Gates from Expedition Unknown followed this path and took samples of the items they said came from King Solomon’s temple. None of them were old enough to have accompanied the Ark. Maybe they should have saved a few travel dollars and just watched that episode.

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Edward Guimont link
12/10/2019 10:20:00 pm

Since this is a topic on the Ark of the Covenant, I may as well ask here - I remember reading somewhere, maybe in Robert Silverberg's book on Prester John, a claim of someone from several hundred years ago that they saw the contents of the Ark in the Axum church, and that it contained objects matching the description of Venus figurines. I have not been able to find this reference again anywhere, either in legitimate sources or even in History Channel grade claims. Does this sound familiar to anyone else?

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.
12/10/2019 10:55:07 pm

That's clearly a post-1947 post-Arnold claim.

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Topic is Ark of the Covenant
12/11/2019 02:12:45 am

Ark of the Covenant never existed because the book of Genesis is fake. Its contents cannot be verified by archaeology.

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TOPIC IS ARK OF THE COVENANT
12/11/2019 02:18:34 am

Any belief in the existence in the Ark of the Covenant is tantamount to being the same category as Graham Hancock, Scott Wolter, et al

Found it
12/11/2019 02:52:14 am

Professor Edward Ullendorf claimed to have seen the Ark in the church of Axum in Ethiopia, in an interview given to the Los Angeles Times, estimating it was dating between "Middle to late medieval construction, when these were fabricated ad hoc"

Kent
12/11/2019 02:54:04 pm

"Ark of the Covenant never existed because the book of Genesis is fake. Its contents cannot be verified by archaeology."

That's like saying hobbits never existed because the Book of Genesis is fake and the Washington Monument cannot be verified by archaeology,

The Ark isn't in Genesis and it's not underground as far as we know.

ARK, ARK
12/12/2019 08:18:51 pm

if you believe that the Ark of the Covenant existed that places you in the same category as Graham Hancock and Scott Wolter.

Archaeology is required to debunk pseudo-histories.
Archaeology has not been able to confirm or validate any Biblical claims other than that countries like Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Rome and Judaea actually existed.

History was depicted mythologically in Ancient Israel and that's not a great way of writing history. The idea of history in the Bible is all about validating God's Plan and nothing else. That's why stories about Ark of the Covenant are spurious to say the very least, culpable at worst.

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Kent
12/13/2019 01:14:25 am

I think it's interesting that you have latched on to the BELIEF that THIS ONE OBJECT didn't exist, yet you don't know what book of the Bible it appears in.

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Still lacking
12/13/2019 08:20:15 am

Exodus cannot be justified through archaeological evidence and you cannot change that fact.

Jr. Time Lord
12/19/2019 02:50:30 am

The Ark is still around. You just have to know when to look up. The 10 Sephiroth/commandments are still there too. The "Mercy Seat" should give it all away.

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