The Knights Templars...the surviving ones headed west...ended up in Novia Scotia/ Canada. Bones found on Oak Island are dated back to Middle East...around Templar times. They supposedly had that plus the Holy Grail. They were in charge of the Relic
Anyone who has any interest in this topic which I think is much more important than is generally understood should read Graham Hancock's book "The Sign and the Seal".
Hancock cites and translates a handful of inscriptions describing "red haired French speaking foreigners" managing the Ark during the early Aksum period; which he identifies from other sources as Templars.
The Ethiopian text cited earlier describes the original contact between the Templars and the Ethiopian prince which occurs in Jerusalem in the period where the Templalrs were looking for the Ark in the caves below the Temple Mount.
The obvious inference is that the Ethiopian prince tells them where the Ark is and how it got there and the Templars promptly shut down their Jerusalem effort and went off to Ethiopia.
Hancock sets out some reasonable speculation based on meetings which are of record among Ethiopians and the Pope and other representatives of King Philip of France that one of the pressures on the King to terminate the Templars came from Ethiopia resulting from concern by the Ethiopians that the Templars were setting up to grab the Ark.
I have no problem with the legends that connect the Templars to the events on Oak Island--it is the kind of depository you might have thought the Templars might conceive of for money and other valuable objectives.
I think the subsequent events in Ethopia involving reconstruction of the Church Christ Mary; continued custody by the designed Ark Custodian; the annual display (not only of the copy but on some occasions the Ark itself) and other visitations lead to the view that the Ark is still there and the likely subject of the Isiah prophecy.
It should also be noted that in 1948, according to a Saturday Evening Post pictorial article, Halle Sallasi took Princes Elizabeth to see the actual Ark. I think that has been some discussion with the Queen about her memory of the event but I do not recall what that produced if anything.
Curious. Thanks.