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Archeologist thinks new tech could reveal where the Lost Ark is hidden at last
NY Post ^
| 4/21/26
| Alex Oliveira
Posted on 04/21/2026 10:41:54 PM PDT by Libloather
Paging Indiana Jones!
An American archeologist thinks he may know where the lost Ark of the Covenant is hidden, and is hoping to mount a search to find it.
Dr. Jones — err, Professor Chris McKinny — believes the Lost Ark may be waiting beneath the City of David, an archeological site just south of the Dome of the Rock which is considered to be one of the oldest sections of Jerusalem, the Daily Mail reported.
McKinny — an associate professor of biblical archeology at Lipscomb University in Tennessee — drew on biblical and historical texts to zero in on his hypothesis, and is hoping to deploy a high-tech device known as a muon detector to scan deep beneath the ground from the City of David to the Dome of the Rock to test his theory.
Muon detectors track subatomic particles that come from cosmic rays striking the atmosphere. The particles penetrate deep within the Earth, and allow people to map structures otherwise hidden beneath the ground.
Scans of the City of David have already revealed unexplored openings beneath the area, and the Ark — said to be plated in gold — would likely appear clearly on muon scans because of its gilded composition, according to McKinny.
The Ark has been missing since about 587 BCE when Jerusalem was sacked by the Babylonians, and the Ark’s keepers hid it to prevent it from being destroyed or falling into enemy hands.
Legend says the golden chest carried the tablets of the Ten Commandments given to Moses by God, and was used by the Israelites as both a tool of protection and a powerful weapon that could topple city walls or afflict enemies with deadly plagues.
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It's always in the last place you look.
To: Libloather
off topic but I just found out today that the city of Newark used to be called New ARK like Ark of the covenant?!
To: Libloather
If the subject is Noah’s Ark, I thought that had already been found near Turkey.
To: Libloather
To: Libloather
2 Maccabees 2:1-8: 1 One finds in the records that Jeremiah the prophet ordered those who were being deported [to Babylon] to take some of the fire, as has been told, 2and that the prophet after giving them the law instructed those who were being deported not to forget the commandments of the Lord, nor to be led astray in their thoughts upon seeing the gold and silver statues and their adornment. 3And with other similar words he exhorted them that the law should not depart from their hearts.
4 It was also in the writing that the prophet, having received an oracle, ordered that the tent and the ark should follow with him, and that he went out
to the mountain where Moses had gone up and had seen the inheritance of God. 5And Jeremiah came and found a cave, and he brought there the tent and the ark and the altar of incense, and he sealed up the entrance. 6Some of those who followed him came up to mark the way, but could not find it. 7When Jeremiah learned of it, he rebuked them and declared: "The place shall be unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy. 8And then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud will appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place should be specially consecrated."
If the Ark of the Covenant is anywhere it is in a cave on Mt. Nebo where it was placed by the prophet Jeremiah at the time of the Babylonian Exile.
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posted on
04/21/2026 11:20:56 PM PDT
by
fidelis
(Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
To: Libloather
To: Libloather
How many times have they found it so far?
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posted on
04/22/2026 12:25:46 AM PDT
by
roving
To: fidelis
Assuming that the Ark was originally interred on Mt. Nebo, it seems likely to have been retrieved after the Babylonia exile and eventually secreted elsewhere, almost certainly in or near Jerusalem. After all, one effect of the Babylonian exile was to unsettle Jewish religious practice and governance. In such a chaotic environment, the faction controlling the Ark might well have kept it hidden lest it be taken or misused by a rival faction or by the Romans after they arrived.
To: Rockingham
Assuming that the Ark was originally interred on Mt. Nebo, it seems likely to have been retrieved after the Babylonia exile and eventually secreted elsewhere, almost certainly in or near Jerusalem. After all, one effect of the Babylonian exile was to unsettle Jewish religious practice and governance. In such a chaotic environment, the faction controlling the Ark might well have kept it hidden lest it be taken or misused by a rival faction or by the Romans after they arrived. Of course those and other scenarios are possible, but I don't know of any documentary or other evidence for them. According the account given in 2 Maccabees (which states that the account there was taken from other records, probably now lost to us), Jeremiah, when he hid the Ark and the other Temple implements in the cave on Mt. Nebo, set very specific conditions for when they would be found again.
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posted on
04/22/2026 12:50:21 AM PDT
by
fidelis
(Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
To: roving
How many times have they found it so far? Many have claimed to have found it, but no one has ever produced physical evidence. The Ethiopian Church has long claimed it was taken to Ethiopia at the time of the Exile and keep it in a locked shrine (where, suspiciously) no outsiders are allowed to enter.
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posted on
04/22/2026 12:56:51 AM PDT
by
fidelis
(Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
To: Libloather
It is in Warehouse 13 ...
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posted on
04/22/2026 2:08:13 AM PDT
by
ByteMercenary
(Election 2020 was stolen by mail-in voting. Mail-in voting and RCV counting should be abolished.)
To: Libloather
Adam Schiff has it in a secure vault with his evidence of Russian collusion, and alleged nudes of President Trump.
To: Libloather

MUON! Who loves ya, baby!"
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posted on
04/22/2026 2:31:03 AM PDT
by
Adder
(End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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posted on
04/22/2026 2:59:13 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: Libloather
The gold covering on the Ark is almost certainly gold leaf (assuming it wasn’t destroyed) so there will be little if any effect discernible by muon scattering. The professor is looking for hype or doesn’t understand the technology.
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posted on
04/22/2026 3:13:24 AM PDT
by
Merrick
(It's a car - that runs on water, man!)
To: Merrick
U think it is in Ethiopia
To: rovenstinez
It’s under Oak Island. Some morbidly obese guy is going to dig it up with a backhoe.
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posted on
04/22/2026 3:58:06 AM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
To: Libloather
Seems like we read a story similar to this every 6-7 years.
To: Libloather
It's currently being studied by top men right now...
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posted on
04/22/2026 4:38:07 AM PDT
by
Frank Drebin
(And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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