Indy never thought to look there

Wouldn’t you know it? Indiana Jones spent all that time chasing Nazis all over the four corners of the planet looking for the Arc of the Covenant, and those goofy Brits had it the whole time:

On a shelf in a locked basement room underneath the British Museum, are kept 11 wooden tablets; they are covered in purple velvet. And no one among the museum’s staff – including Neil MacGregor, the director – is permitted to enter the room.

The tablets – or tabots – are sacred objects in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the most important of the 500 or so priceless Magdala treasures, looted by Britain from Ethiopia in 1868 and now held in this country.

They are regarded as representing the original Ark of the Covenant, which housed the Ten Commandments and the Orthodox Church has been lobbying for their return – or at least easy access to them – for more than 50 years.

Link from Pagan Prattle.

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