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

[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?



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






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



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




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

[nagarifle]

thanks xl

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

[skeetshot]

Tremendous find there xl, thanks for sharing it

[essdee1972]

Thanks, XL! What is the reason to keep these hidden? No Area 51 lurking somewhere, I hope!!

[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
Briha

[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:

[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!

[xl_target]

CK,
You should be brushing up on your US History and Louis L'amour.

[timmy]

. . . 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"

[nagarifle]

eh have not the tamplers got the ark hidden in a cave in scotland?

[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

[TC]

Thank you so much Vikram ..... for causing such sweet pain



TC

[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!

[xl_target]

Double Post:
Posted on the 23rd.
http://indiansforguns.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=21714

[Oggie]

Had missed the first time this was posted hence glad it reappeared ! Good one Vikram and Xl