On 25 June 2009, the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, Abune Paulos, said he would announce to the world the next day the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, which he said had been kept safe and secure in a church in Axum, Ethiopia.

The following day, on 26 June 2009, the patriarch announced that he would not unveil the Ark after all, but that instead he could attest to its current status.

For example, the Hebrew prophet Samuel, would " lie down and sleep in the temple at Shiloh before the Ark and receive the word of the Lord.

Thinking he would not surpass the truck chase from Raiders of the Lost Ark ( because the truck was much faster than the tank ), he felt this sequence should be more story-based and needed to show Indiana and Henry helping each other.

When George Lucas first approached Steven Spielberg for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spielberg recalled, " George said if I directed the first one then I would have to direct a trilogy.

St. Hippolytus of Rome ( d. 235 ) sought to demonstrate that " the Ark was a symbol of the Christ who was expected ", stating that the vessel had its door on the east side – the direction from which Christ would appear at the Second Coming – and that the bones of Adam were brought aboard, together with gold, frankincense and myrrh ( the symbols of the Nativity of Christ ).

This would result in the Ark venturing out and then crashing into prehistoric Earth.

However, by 1963 the Decepticons had raided the Ark and removed all but five of the pillars and hid them on the Moon along with an army of hundreds of Decepticons, awaiting the time that the pillars would be used.

Not agreeing with the High Council's leadership of Second Earth or its reckless use of the sleepers, he eventually forms a group called The Ark, which would later overthrow the High Council's " government " on Second Earth.

According to locals, Noah's Ark landed at the Col de l ' Aulp, whose valley is indeed shaped like a ship ; Noah, Biblical father of viticulture, would have planted the lakeside vineyards of Talloires, which produced wines and brandy until the 1950s.

Thereupon, God decreed that a terrible flood would cover the whole earth and He ordered Noah to build an Ark which would save him and the believers from this dreadful calamity.

Rumors began surfacing that both Van Ark and Shackelford would reprise their roles as Valene and Gary.

A new clubhouse for Etherow Country Park Sailing Club would be built on or near the site of the now demolished Noahs Ark shed.

The Holy of Holies was entered once a year by the High Priest on the Day of Atonement, to sprinkle the blood of sacrificial animals ( a bull offered as atonement for the Priest and his household, and a goat offered as atonement for the people ) and offer incense upon the Ark of the Covenant and the mercy seat which sat on top of the ark in the First Temple ( the Second Temple had no ark and the blood was sprinkled where the Ark would have been and the incense was left on the Foundation Stone ).

The Wall Street Journal reported Coach Tim Floyd as saying, " Last April ... Percy Miller called while driving both players from a tournament in Fayetteville, Ark ... Percy Miller said ' Demar and Romeo are ready to make their decision, and would you like to have them both on scholarship ?'...

But once they succeeded in this effort, a surprise attack by the Deceptions led their spacecraft ( the Ark ) to crash land on Earth, where it would reside for four million years in a dormant volcano.

Using transwarp technology this would allow a user to travel back in time and alter history-specifically, to destroy Optimus Prime as he lay in stasis within The Ark, thereby preventing the Autobots from winning The Great War.

The Chief decides to activate this Halo ; the ringworld would eliminate the Flood infestation on the Ark while sparing the galaxy at large from destruction.

Sheard previously featured in The Ark and The Mind of Evil and would later appear in The Invisible Enemy, Castrovalva and Remembrance of the Daleks.

Gravemind, a being representing the group-mind of the Flood, actually aids Arbiter and the Chief in finding Truth, since the activation of the Ark would doom its species.

The Chief decides to activate this Halo ; the ringworld would eliminate the Flood infestation on the Ark while sparing the galaxy at large from destruction.

Guilty Spark is ecstatic, but when Sergeant Johnson prepares to fire the new Halo to stop the Flood — a process that would destroy the incomplete ring and damage the Ark — Spark goes berserk, refusing to let the Reclaimers destroy " his " ring.

Amphibian Ark is an organization that was formed to implement the ex-situ conservation recommendations of this plan, and they have been working with zoos and aquaria around the world encouraging them to create assurance colonies of threatened amphibians.

The Bethshemites sent to Kirjath-jearim, or Baal-Judah, to have the Ark removed ( 1 Sam.

Since its disappearance from the Biblical narrative, there have been a number of claims of having discovered or of having possession of the Ark, and several possible places have been suggested for its location.

The Lemba people of South Africa and Zimbabwe have claimed that their ancestors carried the Ark south, calling it the ngoma lungundu or " voice of God ", eventually hiding it in a deep cave in the Dumghe mountains, their spiritual home.

One Lemba clan, the Buba, which was supposed to have brought the Ark to Africa, have a genetic signature called the Cohen Modal Haplotype.

Several recent authors have theorised that the Ark was taken from Jerusalem to the village of Rennes-le-Château in Southern France.

The Ark of the Covenant was said to be have been kept in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, surviving the pillages of Rome by Genseric and Alaric I but lost when the basilica burned.

During the turn of the 20th century British Israelites carried out some excavations of the Hill of Tara in Ireland looking for the Ark of the Covenant – the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland campaigned successfully to have them stopped before they destroyed the hill.

Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Ark Royal:

Many of the Templar legends are connected with the Order's early occupation of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and speculation about what relics the Templars may have found there, such as the Holy Grail or the Ark of the Covenant.

The monasteries are believed to rest on earlier religious sites and include the fourteenth century Debre Maryam, the eighteenth century Narga Selassie, Tana Qirqos ( said to have housed the Ark of the Covenant before it was moved to Axum ), and Ura Kidane Mehret, known for its regalia.

Synagogues have a continually lit lamp or light in front of the Ark, where the Torah scroll is kept, called the ner tamid ( eternal light ).

The producers and writers have cited All the President's Men, Three Days of the Condor, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rashomon, The Thing, The Boys from Brazil, The Silence of the Lambs, and JFK as influences on the series.

Some science-fiction works, particularly of the " hard " genre, have explicitly made use of the Alcubierre theory, such as Stephen Baxter's novel Ark.

* 1010 BC — Uzzah, a citizen of Judah, dies, believed to have been smitten by God for violating divine law by touching the Ark of the Covenant.

" Antonio de Lorea also argued for their existence, and Athanasius Kircher argued that compartments must have been built for them aboard Noah's Ark.

Jones claims that he has no belief in the supernatural, only to have his skepticism challenged when he discovers the Ark.

Traditionally Ethiopian emperors were crowned at the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum, the site of the chapel in which is kept what is believed to be the Ark of the Covenant, in order to validate the new emperor's legitimacy by reinforcing his claim to descent from Menelik I, the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who is believed to have brought the Ark from Jerusalem to Axum.

It has also been asserted that the pit may have been dug by exiled Knights Templar and that it is the last resting place of the Holy Grail or even the holy Ark of the Covenant.

They will thus make all that I have ordered, the Communion Tent, the Ark of the Covenant, the ark cover to go on it, all the utensils for the tent, the table and its utensils, the pure menorah and all its utensils, the incense altar, the sacrificial altar and all its utensils, the washstand and its base, the packing cloths, the sacred vestments for Aaron the priest, the vestments that his sons wear to serve, the anointing oil, and the incense for the sanctuary.

Past participants have included Director John D. Hancock ( Bang The Drum Slowly, Prancer, Let's Scare Jessica to Death ,) Filmmakers Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank ( subjects of the award Winning Documentary American Movie ) and Filmmakers Eric Zala and Chris Strompolos ( Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation.