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[shinytoaster]

So, I've just spent the last hour and half watching this documentary, in which some professor dude claims that he's tracked down the Ark of the Covenant (for real) and ...

Oh ... you'll like this ...



It's in Zimbabwe.

Yeah.

It's, er, also a war drum.

The evidence is compellingly crackpot, but as usual it's all on the good old chromosomes, with an obscure tribe in northern South Africa popping up with a genetic signature that links them to the ancient Israelite priesthood. Which just goes to show that there is logic behind marrying a nice Jewish boy as it leaves a very clear genetic signature.

I, however, will withhold judgment until it causes the destruction of the Dome of the Rock or something.

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[pengolodh-sc.livejournal.com]

An actual professor? Not some guy in khaki and olive clothing running theatrically up and down (more or less) secret underground passages in Jerusalem, with the odd theatrical climbing over a ridge added for effect?

[chibikaijuu.livejournal.com]

I think I saw ads for that documentary - unless there's more than one recently, which seems a little much. It looked mildly ridiculous.

Besides, the Ark of the Covenant is in some secret Nazi warehouse somewhere, as everyone knows. Unless it was moved to a secret US military warehouse somewhere, which seems likely, although slightly less likely than Spielberg just being fond of secret government warehouses.