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The creators of “Charlie Bartlett” seem to have had an elaborate mental checklist of every high school movie cliché known to man and, item by tedious item, set out to check them off. Hopelessly troubled rich kid expelled from private school and forced to...
When last we saw the lost Ark of the Covenant in action, it had been dug up by Indiana Jones in Egypt and ark-napped by Nazis, whom the Ark proceeded to incinerate amidst a tempest of terrifying apparitions. But according to Tudor Parfitt, a real-life scholar-adventurer, Raiders...
So, had he found the Ark? Yes and no, he concluded. A splinter has carbon-dated the drum to 1350 AD - ancient for an African wood artifact, but 2,500 years after Moses. Undaunted, Parfitt asserts that "this is the Ark referred to in Lemba tradition" - Lemba legend has it...
Well, perhaps a little doubt. "It seems highly unlikely to me," says Shimon Gibson, a noted biblical archaeologist to whom Parfitt has described his project. "You have to make tremendous leaps." Those who hope to find the original biblical item, moreover, will likely reject Parfitt's claim that the best...
The original version of this article stated that the New Acropolis Museum opens ?later this year or early next.? Since then, the Greek Minister of Culture has announced that it will open this fall.