According to legend, the ark of the Covenant, representing a silver casket that contains the saints of tablets with the ten commandments written by Moses from the words of the Lord God. On this subject Steven Spielberg was shot adventure film "the Seekers of the lost Ark"in which Indiana Jones makes heroic deeds on the way to the desired sanctuary - the ark of the Covenant.

Providence has been pleased to introduce is not fictitious, and quite real the search for the ark of the researcher with the same name is Jones. The history of Vendela Jones and his interest in the mythical relics Dating back to the events of half a century ago.

In 1952, archaeologists headed by Professor Gerald Harding digging the cave number three in Qumran, which means in the local dialect "Two moons". In this area had already been found hundreds of rolls, made mainly of leather and parchment, and now the researchers found the copper scroll! Text in Hebrew was engraved on a scroll in the opposite order: it started on the back and ended on the front. The finding was sent to Manchester, where copper roll with great difficulty was launched to ensure that you make out the inscription.

The efforts of many researchers have succeeded in the first approximation to determine the meaning of the text. The text gave the impression of some kind of list of the different characteristics of the given area - geographical, geological and topographical. But the language of the document was left feeling "mysterious, intriguing, vague, contradictory and elusive." In fact, if some of the text seemed more or less clear, the other part consisted of scraps of phrases, characters and doodles, absolutely not be decrypted. According to experts, to reach their meaning was possible only under condition of deep knowledge of Hebrew literature and vocabulary". Researchers, puzzled by such a strange circumstances, four years were silent about their "linguistic discoveries". Then they published its own interpretation of the text, which after some time found 80 factual errors! According to experts, "private interpretation" inspired the strongest doubts about its identity to the original. Moreover, there were people who called this work "fraud", "imitation", "Jewish mystical folk" or even "the ravings of a madman.

Jeremiah the prophet, may hid the ark of the Covenant

However, Vendyl Jones their self-denying labors put an end to speculation, and proved the crucial importance of the content of the copper scroll. Was still that is engraved on it is not a list of geographical and other characteristics of the given area, and... the list sacred treasures of the first temple in Israel (Solomon's temple), hidden in the secret vaults before the disastrous invasion of the Babylonians about 422 BC! Among the inscriptions on the scroll was the following: "At the base of the hill in a desert valley ANKOR on its Eastern side there is the stone covering the entrance to the cave. From the entrance you go down forty stone steps and there is covered with earth silver casket with the robes of the high priest, and buried near the sacred tabernacle with priceless treasures of gold and silver". In the rest of the text contains many instructions on different landmarks to look for a hiding place. According to Vendela Jones, take advantage of the guidance is possible only by means of a special code that has not yet been found.

In search of this code, the researchers had to thoroughly study the treatise Rabbi Naftali Hertz of Alcanena written in 1648 in Amsterdam, which includes the full text of some of the lost Hebrew labor, consisting of 12 chapters. They describe the various vessels, caskets and boxes, filled with treasures and hidden by the prophet Jeremiah in secret places in 429 BC, or seven years before the invasion of the Babylonians and the fall of the first Jerusalem temple.

The most important chapters in this text Vendyl Jones believes the first and the second. In the first Chapter lists hidden "vessels" treasure, and second reports on the application of appropriate inscriptions on the copper scroll.

Interestingly, the Talmud confirms actions Jeremiah conservation treasures. Moreover, he mentions the prophecy of Jeremiah, preventing the great Exodus of the Jews, and reports its disposal to hide the treasures, including the ark of the Covenant, the container of oil for anointing, Aaron's rod and the casket of jewels, sent by the Philistines in the gift of the God of Israel, "for future generations". The ark as if placed in a small crypt, where he was kept for forty years. And after five centuries of king Solomon built the first temple in Jerusalem, where, and put the ark, and the treasures buried under the Church.

Rabbi Tropper in his work, dedicated to the fate of the ark of the Covenant, mentions some of the sanctuary, built to honor the tabernacle. It was the altar for sacrifices and kept chandelier made of pure gold, copper urn with ashes from the ritual burning of the red heifer and the number of vessels used by the priests in Church life. It is inside the sanctuary though and was the ark of the Covenant with boards depicting the ten commandments, dictated to Moses at Sinai, as well as sacred objects.

Archival research, undertaken in the 1990s, culminated in the discovery curious labour certain Solomon Schechter, published in 1896 in Cambridge (England). The work is interesting because the author used it many manuscripts from the storage of antiquities synagogue Ben of Ezra were in Cairo (Egypt). Apparently, they thoroughly studied and the main finder ark of the Covenant of Vendyl Jones. No doubt that it is in the repository of ancient manuscripts of the synagogue Ben and of Ezra were lies the greatest mystery of the ark.