New tech could offer ways to examine labyrinth of tunnels under Jerusalem
By Bob Unruh
In Hollywood movie lore, specifically Harrison Ford’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” the Nazis, in possession of the biblical Ark of the Covenant, open it and energy flashes forth, destroying them.
That actually follows a biblical description of what happened when people historically peaked into the Ark. 1st Samuel 6:19 documents, “He struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord. He struck down of all the people, 50,070 men, and the people mourned because the Lord struck the people with a great slaughter.”
Much of the rest of the movie is fiction, and it ends with the Ark, boxed in a wooden crate, being stored, essentially lost, in a vast warehouse with wooden crates stacked high and wide.
Biblically, the Ark, containing the two stones of the Ten Commandments, Aaron’s staff that budded and a sample of manna, was placed behind a veil that set aside the Holy of Holies in Israel’s temple, and it often led the nation into battle. It’s been missing for centuries.
But there’s hope now.
A report in the Daily Mail explains archaeologist Chris McKinny has suggested the Ark could be hidden in one of the underground spaces under Jerusalem, not far from the Temple Mount.
“Researchers plan to scan underground spaces in the area using powerful technology designed to detect hidden cativites and muried metals,” the report said.