Ark of the Covenant Archaeologists in the Holy Land have announced plans to excavate a previously untouched site associated with the story of the Ark of the Covenant.
According to the Times of Israel, researchers have at last turned their attention to Kiryat Ye’arim, the location of a biblical town dating to the story of King David and mentioned numerous times in the Bible as a resting site for the Ark for 20 years before its removal to Jerusalem. The site has never previously been the subject of an archaeological dig.
Far from entertaining hopes of a find as momentous as the Ark of the Covenant, experts preparing for the dig believe the linking of that artefact to the site promises the remains of an important temple there.
The dig team is expected to focus on the area around and under a 20th-Century hill-top monastery called Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant, which itself sits on top of earlier Byzantine ruins.
According to 1 Chronicles 13:6 : “Then David and all Israel went up to Baalah, to Kiriath-jearim in Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God which bears the name of Yahweh who is seated on the cherubs. At Abinadab’s house, they placed the ark of God on a new cart…”