A latter-day Indiana Jones believes he has found the burial site of the biblical Ark of the Covenant — in a part of the West Bank that Israel has already handed over to the Palestinian Authority. Michael Sanders, bases his theory on satellite images, ancient Egyptian papyrus documents and other sources.
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