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"The Ark is in Ethiopia."

I'm not sold on that theory. I've read the book(s) on the Ark being there, and there's too much in the story that's too vague, and unless we actually SEE the Ark, it's all conjecture.

A lot of the Ark mythology is (sadly) tightly tied up in the Rosicrucian/Templar/DaVinci code nonsense, and if you read enough of it, you see where they all cut and paste and borrow and steal from each other, and they all use the same faulty logic to "prove" their theories, with little if no evidence.

Much like when I see Von Däniken used as a credible source on Discovery/National Geographic woo woo "documentaries", I cringe when I read of lot of Ark materials. Some of it's real, some of it's fanasy from obsession, and a lot of it is simply nonsense.

This Wyatt's work is interesting on a casual level, but it seems like it's all focused towards selling a book - if he had indeed found a monumental discovery, as earth-shaking and huge as finding the Ark and other priceless artifacts in a tomb under Golgotha, it would be the stuff of history, and shared throught the globe, not in a book few if any have read. I'm sorry to be that critical, but while the snippets on the web are interesting, if for any reason because I want to visit those sites someday, but it all ends with the usual "others tried to verify his findings but were unable to", and the failure credited to some nefarious government/religious plot to squash the information.

I tend to think if the Ark was found, word would spread fast. Finding an object as important as the Ark, which would end anyone's doubt to the events surrounding it in a final, ultimate way...I just tend to think the news would be impossible to squash. Even if the Muslims found it, they would be quick to use it to taunt the Jews and Christians who would be in anguish at it's being held by such animals.

I would be overjoyed for it to be found. But I'm also worried that I will be alive when it is revealed, as I think that would be part of bigger events that every man woman and child should be terrified to live through. It's important to have faith, but you have to be wary of those using your faith to sell you books and movies, just like the global warming idiots are using junk science to sell their books and movies. I read a lot of the conspiracy theory type stuff, as it's pure entertainment (and you can find out some usefull things along the way, when they manage to reproduce historical data correctfully and truthfully), especially the Priory of Sion/Rennes-les-Chateau conspiracy theories, which Dan Brown ransacked for the DaVinci Code. But like anything else, you have to keep a skeptical eye out, and not let them lead you down the merry path to pure fanatasy, which is where they generally tend to end up with their creative "logic" and specious arguments.

Perhaps the Arabs have found something else on in the foundations...more likely they're using Arafat's ridiculous digging as a way to justify an attack on the "Joos" - thing are getting dicey for the terrorists in Iraq, and they may want something to divert attention away from their losses...or it's payback for Syria. I don't know, but I would'nt be surprised if that's what it was.

Me, I have faith that God will reveal what we need to see in his own time and his own reasons, and some mysteries will remain that: mysteries.