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The Ark of the Covenant? Unlikely or ..... Maybe?

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 2:20 am
by xl_target
Remember the closing scenes in "Indiana Jones and the The Raiders of the Lost Ark" where the crated Ark is slowly wheeled into a gigantic warehouse where "top men" will supposedly be examining it?

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Well, apparently some warehouses like that do exist. The US Army owns one of those warehouses. :)


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So what's back there? Among other things, the richest American military firearms collection on the Planet

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Many of the Army's art treasures are located there:

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Check it out http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/in ... asure-room

Re: The Ark of the Covenant? Unlikely or ..... Maybe?

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:22 am
by nagarifle
thanks xl

its the last time i will let yous see my gun room. asked not to tell everyone

Re: The Ark of the Covenant? Unlikely or ..... Maybe?

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:54 am
by skeetshot
Tremendous find there xl, thanks for sharing it

Re: The Ark of the Covenant? Unlikely or ..... Maybe?

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:33 am
by essdee1972
Thanks, XL! What is the reason to keep these hidden? No Area 51 lurking somewhere, I hope!!

Re: The Ark of the Covenant? Unlikely or ..... Maybe?

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 11:02 am
by brihacharan
Hi xl_target,
> Thanks for sharing..
> Wonder as to why they keep them locked up?
> May be there is good reason for it.... would love to know :D
Briha

Re: The Ark of the Covenant? Unlikely or ..... Maybe?

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 11:42 am
by xl_target
Thanks, XL! What is the reason to keep these hidden? No Area 51 lurking somewhere, I hope!!
Nothing sinister,, apparently.
They don't have a museum to display it yet.
The entire collection could be made accessible to the public, if the funds for a museum could be raised.
However, there are major fundraising hurdles to jump before the museum can be built. The foundation’s president recently told the Washington Post that they have raised $76 million of the $175 million required for the museum and predicts the museum could open in 2018. The plan is to build the museum at Fort Belvoir.
Until then:
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Re: The Ark of the Covenant? Unlikely or ..... Maybe?

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 2:06 pm
by ckkalyan
Lovely find there xl_target - thanks for sharing!

What a remarkable coincidence! For some reason, I have been over-dosing, over the past week on the 'Indy' movies, The Avenger series (Cap America, Iron Man, Thor,) also Super Eight and get this, re-visiting The Old Testament, actually reading it with fresh eyes!

All these simultaneous inputs seem to have set my mind on fire with various possibilities, connections, reality, fantasy, hidden agendas and so on. When I saw this post I wasn't surprised any longer that my senses were awhirl! :D

Re: The Ark of the Covenant? Unlikely or ..... Maybe?

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 8:27 pm
by xl_target
CK,
You should be brushing up on your US History and Louis L'amour. :)

Re: The Ark of the Covenant? Unlikely or ..... Maybe?

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:16 am
by timmy
ckkalyan wrote:. . . and get this, re-visiting The Old Testament, actually reading it with fresh eyes!
CK, just watch out for the Hollywood types, the ones that figure the spacemen came, and all that other rubbish -- stick to history with good scholarship.

In fact, the real Ark disappeared when Nebuchadnezzar the Babylonian sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple in 586 BC. The Holy of Holies was therefore empty throughout the periods of Ezra's and Herod's Temples. Flavius Josephus, writing about the time of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem in 72 AD, noted that the Holy of Holies was empty at that time, i.e., no Ark was present then.There are, however, a few indications that contents of the Ark may have survived for some time after the Roman conquest, although this is unclear.

I write this to add a little more "fire with various possibilities, connections, reality, fantasy, hidden agendas and so on"

:-)

Re: The Ark of the Covenant? Unlikely or ..... Maybe?

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:45 am
by nagarifle
eh have not the tamplers got the ark hidden in a cave in scotland?

Inside The US Army’s Spectacular Hidden Treasure Room

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 5:11 pm
by Vikram
Fascinating collection. I posted only some of the photos from the link. Please click on the link and read through the text for more info.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/in ... asure-room


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Re: Inside The US Army’s Spectacular Hidden Treasure Room

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 5:15 pm
by TC
Thank you so much Vikram ..... for causing such sweet pain :D

:cheers:

TC

Re: Inside The US Army’s Spectacular Hidden Treasure Room

Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:50 pm
by timmy
I like the last pic. "Arrgh! Repel boarders!"

Maybe they have Errol Flynn stashed away somewhere!

It would be wonderful to browse that place for a day!

Re: Inside The US Army’s Spectacular Hidden Treasure Room

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 5:20 am
by xl_target

Re: Inside The US Army’s Spectacular Hidden Treasure Room

Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2014 8:14 am
by Oggie
Had missed the first time this was posted hence glad it reappeared ! Good one Vikram and Xl