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Ark May Lie
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DOUGLAS DAVIS
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1998
70 Detroit Jewish News
latter-day Indiana Jones
believes he has found the
burial site of the Ten
Commandments — in a
part of the West Bank that Israel has
already handed over to the
Palestinian Authority.
Michael Sanders, 58, bases his
theory on satellite images, coupled
with a study of ancient Egyptian
papyrus documents from the British
Museum in London and other
accounts.
The British-born Sanders, a pub-
lisher of classical university texts who
now lives in Irvine, Calif., has spent
more than 25 years researching bibli-
cal history.
Now he is planning to excavate
the site, where he has detected the
contours of an Egyptian temple that
he believes may have been built over
the burial site of the biblical Ark of
the Covenant.
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"There will be archeologists with
us," he told the London Sunday
Times, "but the search for the ark is
bound to be more of a treasure hunt
than a classical archeological dig."
The Ark of the Covenant — and
the Ten Commandments that were
inscribed at Mount Sinai around
1250 BCE — disappeared from
Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem after
a raid by an Egyptian king in the
10th century BCE.
It was never recovered, and its
location is one of the most enduring
and fascinating biblical mysteries.
Sanders believes the ark was seized
by Egyptian King Shishak when
Solomon's Temple was plundered in
925 BCE, the first in a series of
Egyptian raids on Jerusalem.
He says papyrus documents in the
British Museum have identified an
Egyptian temple at the southern end
of the West Bank, beneath which the
ark may have been buried.
"This temple is referred to in the
papyrus as a 'mysterious house in the
land of Zahi,' " which Sanders said is
a reference to the god Amuna Ra.
In 1830, the American explorer
Edward Robinson walked the route
Douglas Davis writes for the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency.