The Ark of the Covenant was trending on Google on Thursday morning, and it’s not because there’s a new Indiana Jones movie on the way. The sacred object is in the news because a CIA document about it ...

Earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the mighty God and receive what I commit to you, and guard them until the last times so that, when you are ordered, you may restore them, so that strangers may ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is more difficult than it seems.

For centuries, people have wondered what really happened to the Ark of the Covenant-the gold-covered chest the ancient Israelites believed carried God’s presence and held their most sacred items. Its ...