They were slaughtered trying to stop real-life raiders of the lost ark — an artifact so powerful and holy they were forbidden from ever seeing it. The harrowing mass-murder of at least 800 ...

Those memories haunt a deacon at the country’s most sacred Ethiopian Orthodox church in Axum, where local faithful believe the ancient Ark of the Covenant is housed. As Ethiopia’s Tigray ...

At least 800 people were reportedly killed in Ethiopia as worshippers and soldiers risked their lives to protect what Christians there say is the sacred Ark of the Covenant from local militia.

"What he saw was what you find in any Ethiopian church, which is a model of the Ark of the Covenant," Parfitt said. Apparently, Ullendorff said that "it didn't differ in any way from many arks he ...

Ethiopian Christians contend that the Ark of the Covenant resides in a chapel ... A report by Fox News suggests that the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum houses one of the world's most ...

10 Is this Ethiopian monk guarding the Ark of the Covenant? Don’t bet on it. According to some, the Ark is hidden within the belly of the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, in Aksum, Ethiopia.

Aksum is a holy site for Ethiopian Orthodox Christians who say it is home to the Ark of the Covenant ... guard at the city's Our Lady Mary of Zion Church and no-one is allowed to see it.