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Is the Ark of the Covenant at Aksum? by Roderick Grierson
According to Ethiopian tradition, the Ark of the Covenant is preserved in the ancient holy city of Aksum. For centuries, the great relic was kept in the Church of Mary of Zion, where the emperor Iyasu is recorded as having seen it and spoken to it in 1691. Now it is kept in the Chapel of the Tablet, which was built beside the church during the reign of the last emperor Haile Selassie. The relic is entrusted to a single guardian, who burns incense before it and recites the Biblical Book of Psalms. No one else can approach it, including the high priest of Aksum. The guardian is not only a monk, but a virgin as well, and he serves the Ark until he appoints a successor as his own death approaches. (Continue...)
Roderick Grierson on the Ark at Aksum
At Aksum, Ethiopia, Ark of the Covenant expert Roderick Grierson explains the possibility that the Ark may be located in Ethiopia. (Watch video...)
Louis Farrakhan on Ethiopia's Significance to African Americans
At a hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Gates runs into Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, who shares his thoughts on Gates' article in the New Yorker and the importance of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. (Watch video...)
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