Unveiling! Arc of the Covenant - Ethiopia. Surprised?

Rome - The Orthodox Patriarch, Abuno Paulos, wants to reveal the millennial secret, and in an exclusive interview with Adnkronos said, "The time is ripe to tell the truth." A museum for the sacred symbol will be built in Axum. This was said in an exclusive interview with Adnkronos, visible on the web site _www.adnkronos.com_ (www.adnkronos.com...) , by the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, Abuna Paulos, in Italy for a "G8 of religions," who tomorrow will meet for the first time with Pope Benedict XVI, to whom, "if he asks," continued the Patriarch, "I will tell all of the entire situation regarding the Ark of the Covenant." www.adnkronos.com

"The Ark of the Covenant," affirms Paulos, "has been in Ethiopia for many centuries. As Patriarch I have seen it with my own eyes, and only a very few qualified people have been able to do this, so far." According to the Patriarch, it is kept in a church, but to defend the authentic one, a copy of the religious symbol has been placed in every church in the country. The official announcement, in which Ethiopia will give to the world the keys to the millennial secret of the Ark, will be given next Friday during a press conference at 2:00 p.m. at the Hotel Aldrovandi in Rome, by the same Orthodox Patriarch of Ethiopia, along with Prince Aklile Berhan Makonnen Haile Selassie and Duke Amedeo D'Aosta, who will be in Rome tomorrow morning.

But what is the Ark of the Covenant, one of the greatest mysteries of antiquity, on which fantasy, legend and history have continued to be interwoven for centuries? The Ark, in Jewish tradition, contained the Tables of the Law, that is, the Ten Commandments, and the artifact, made of acacia wood, was built by Moses. The outside decorations were of gold, and it was for a long time kept by the Jewish people. It accompanied them in their vicissitudes, the battles and defeats, the wanderings and struggles against the Philistines, and was kept in various places until King David placed it in the fortress of Jerusalem. But it was Solomon, son and successor of David, who put the Ark in the Temple of Jerusalem which he had built. The story is then interwoven with historical events and other religious and national traditions. In fact, the Ark disappeared in 586 BC with the conquest of Jerusalem by the Babylonians and the consequent destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem.