Rumours of life greatly exaggerated From: The Spectator | Date: April 16, 2005| Author: | Copyright Spectator Apr 16, 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Rumours of life greatly exaggerated THE QUEST FOR THE ARK OF THE COVENANT by Stuart Munro-Hay I.B. Tauris, £19.50, pp. 276, ISBN X1850436681 £17.50 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848

Certain concepts send even the least reputable historian scuttling for cover. The Holy Grail heads the list. The Knights Templar inspire grave suspicion; so do Atlantis and the Round Table. The Ark of the Covenant is up there with the best or worst - of them.

The Ark was the repository for the two tablets of stone which Moses brought down from the mountain and on which were inscribed the Ten Commandments. To ...

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