(upbeat music) - [Narrator] 3000 years ago
in the holy city of Jerusalem King Solomon built a
magnificent temple. In it was said to be the
most Holy object on earth, The Ark of the Covenant,
containing the 10 Commandments the very stones God gave
Moses on Mount Sinai. According to the Bible, the Ark had unimaginable
supernatural powers. - In ancient times when anybody came in contact
with the contents of the Ark, bad things happened to them. - [Narrator] But
then mysteriously, the Ark and the Stone Tablets
disappeared without a trace. What happened to them and
where they might be today remain among the Bible's
greatest mysteries. But now one man thinks
he has the answer. - I'm absolutely
sure that I know where the contents
of the Ark are. (instrumental music) - [Narrator] Jerusalem,
the heart of the Holy Land, the soul of the Western world. (ominous music) The Golden Dome of the Rock
dominates this sacred city. It is one of the holiest
shrines of Islam. From here the Prophet Muhammad is said to have
ascended to heaven. (ominous music continues) And for thousands of
years, many have believed this was also the side of King
Solomon's magnificent temple, the last place on earth the Ark of the Covenant
and the Stone Tablets were ever seen. - [Narrator 1] And
they shall make an Ark. - [Narrator] With these words, God commanded the children
of Israel to build a chest to receive the 10 commandments. - [Narrator 1] And thou
shall put into the Ark the testimony which
I shall give thee. - [Narrator] It's awesome
powers are the stuff of legend. Bolt of lightning in plains, leveling mountains and
laying ways to entire armies. The Bible tells us God gave
Moses precise specifications for building the Ark. Its contents, The
10 commandments, were said to be the
only physical object ever to pass directly
from God to man. From Moses to Solomon, the Ark remained most sacred
symbol of the Jewish faith while it's great powers
led the children of Israel to victory after
victory in battle. Solomon built the first
great temple of Jerusalem to house the Ark. (ominous music) And it was here in the
temples inner sanctum, the Holy of Holies,
that the Ark remained until it vanished
literally from the Bible and from all historical record. Mike Sanders is a
biblical scholar who has spent half a lifetime
searching for evidence that events in the Bible can be reconciled
with historical fact. And now, Sanders believes he
knows the fate of the lost Ark and God's 10 commandments
to the children of Israel. Over thousands of years, there's been endless
speculation in theories by archeologists,
biblical scholars, treasure hunters and crackpots all claiming to have solved
the mystery and found the Ark. Perhaps the most intriguing
theory involved Solomon himself. The legend begins with
the beautiful and powerful Queen of Sheba,
ruler of Ethiopia who journeys to Jerusalem
to meet the King of Israel. She's heard of his
legendary wisdom and yet meeting the great
King, she is spellbound. They fall in love. (ominous music) But it would be a
star-crossed romance, their passion in conflict
with their sovereign duties. Before she left Ethiopia, Sheba vowed to return
to her homeland, to her people and to her throne. Obligation won out over desire. It is on her journey home that
their son Menelik is born. When Menelik turns 20, Sheba sends him to meet
his legendary father. For Menelik too, meeting the
great King is a revelation. Even legend proves inadequate to the man who
welcomes him so warmly, the father he never knew. Menelik is in awe
of the great King. And yet all too soon, he must make the return
journey to Ethiopia as well. To assure his safety,
Jerusalem's temple elders send their firstborn
sons as escorts. It is only once the caravan has journeyed deep
into the desert that his guardians revealed
their secret cargo. Unbeknownst to Menelik, his caravan is carrying
the holiest of artifacts, the Ark itself. Convinced it is God's will, Menelik continues the
journey to Ethiopia where many believe the
Ark remains to this day in the church of St. Mary's
in the village of Aksum. A second prominent theory has a group of Renegade
Israelites in a religious dispute, fleeing with the Ark to
Elephantine Island in the Nile where they build their own
temple and Holy of Holies. Two centuries later,
a war breaks out between the Israelites on
Elephantine and the Egyptians. The temple is destroyed and the Israelites
depart with the Ark. Some say they took
it to Ethiopia. Some say they returned
it to Jerusalem. Some say they did neither. And still other
theories involve legends that harken back to the
time of the crusades. When Knights in shining armor ventured to the Holy Land
in the name of Christendom to battle the Muslim
conquerors known as infidels. It was the time of King
Arthur and the Round Table of Robin hood and
Richard the Lionheart. It was also the time of a
mysterious and mystical order known as the Knights Templar who were said to
use the crusades as a pretense for finding
the Holy Grail and the Ark. One account has the knights
marching on Jerusalem in 1119 AD where it is said they dug
under the Dome of the Rock, but found nothing. And yet the story is
also told another way, that they actually
found the Holy Relic beneath the Dome of the Rock, transported it back to
Europe in total secrecy and have kept it hidden deep beneath the Cathedral
Chartres ever since. Still others say the Ark will be found on the Jordanian
banks of the Dead Sea, not far from the location
of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Some actually believe the legend
according to Indiana Jones, a snake filled Well of Souls
in the Egyptian desert. Still others believe it was
buried under Temple Mount to hide the sacred Ark
from Israel's enemies. A site sacred to three faiths, this would be the battleground
between Muslim invaders and the forces of
Christendom on crusade. Ron Wyatt, a
self-proclaimed archeologist claim to have seen
the Ark here in 1982 but died before
revealing his evidence. (ominous music) And now Mike Sanders
has a new theory. He picks up the trail
in the Bible itself. - What is quite
startling is that there is nothing in the
Bible that explicitly says that the Ark disappeared. It seems to just
fade from history but there are clues and they
are very important clues. - [Narrator] According
to the old Testament, five years after the
death of Solomon, an Egyptian Pharaoh
known as Shishak invaded the Holy Land and
held Jerusalem to ransom. In return for sparing the city, Shishak demanded all
the treasures in the Kingdom of Judah. - Shishak comes to the
edge of this Kingdom with a vast army of 60,000 foot
soldiers and 1200 charities and he sends his
emissaries ahead and says, "I control totally your
country. I will leave you alone. Give me all the
treasures of your temple and all the treasures
of your palace." - [Narrator]
According to Sanders, to spare the Holy city
and to save their lives, the people gave
Shishak everything, including the treasure
of Solomon's temple. - And all means all. It is absolutely certain that Shishak took all the
treasures of the temple and all means the
Ark of the Covenant and the contents of the Ark. - [Narrator] If
Sanders' interpretation of the Bible is correct, history has been
looking for the Ark in all the wrong places. But if Shishak took
everything including the Ark, what did he do with it? And who was the Egyptian
Pharaoh the Bible calls Shishak? (ominous music) If Mike Sanders is correct,
if the Ark of the Covenant was taken from King
Solomon's temple by the Pharaoh known in
the Bible as Shishak, then Sanders must
discover who Shishak was and what he did with
his sacred plunder. There is only one place
to start looking, Cairo. The world's greatest collection
of ancient Egyptian relics is found here in
Cairo's Egyptian Museum. Sanders has come
in search of clues. What would a conquering
Pharaoh like Shishak have done with the loot from
his Israeli campaign? (ominous music) These small ceremonial
stone tablets were discovered
beneath the foundations of ancient Egyptian temples. In that custom, there
could be a clue. Known as foundation deposits, they might shed light on what
Shishak did with the treasure he took out of Israel. An expert on foundation deposits is the former director of
the Museum, Mohammed Salem. - The foundation deposits are
the objects or the artifacts which the ancient Egyptian Kings from the beginning
of the history were putting under some
places of construction. Whatever you find in
the foundation deposits you find the names of the Kings who built or who ordered
building this building and the God to whom
it was dedicated and some other information telling us what kinds
of tools and instruments were used in these buildings,
in the great buildings. They were putting this
in special corners. - In the four corners. - In the four corners. - So it was in fact, most
of the important buildings had foundation deposits
and certainly temples. - Temples, pyramids,
palaces and shrines for the God or for the King. - [Narrator] Sanders
believes Shishak knew the stones from
the Ark were sacred and placed them in
the foundation of one of his own temples. - He would have thought that, "Ah, we've got the
shrine of their God, let's take the stones or
whatever is inside that offering and put it in our
temple deposit, in our foundation deposit." - [Narrator] If he
did Sanders believes, these priceless biblical relics, the actual stones God
gave Moses on Mount Sinai, might remain today precisely
where Shishak buried them nearly 3000 years ago. (ominous music) The ancient city of Luxor
on the banks of the Nile. Across the river is
the Valley of the Kings with tombs and monuments of many of Egypt's
greatest Pharaohs. The next stage of Sanders search is to find out more
about the Pharaoh referred to in the old
Testament as Shishak. (ominous music) Written on these walls are
the histories of the Pharaohs. But with virtually all
the great Egyptian Kings represented here,
there is no mention of a Pharaoh named Shishak. In fact, most scholars agree, there never was a
Pharaoh named Shishak. Sanders though, is undaunted and thinks he's discovered
the discrepancy. Shishak it turns out,
is the Hebrew name given an Egyptian King
in the old Testament. It's not an Egyptian
name at all. But Saunders must still
answer the question, exactly which
Pharaoh was Shishak? Here, Sanders' theory could rewrite hundreds of
years of ancient history. (ominous music) For centuries,
it's been believed the Pharaoh referred to
in the Bible as Shishak was the 22nd dynasty
King known as Shoshenq. He too invaded the Holy Land and many felt the
similar sounding names made a strong case. But Saunders isn't so sure. Once again the clue he needs would be found in
the Bible itself. (ominous music) In the biblical account
of Shishak's campaign, his army invaded only
the Southern part of the Kingdom of Judah leaving the Northern territory,
known as Israel, untouched. All the other Egyptian Pharaohs had attacked both
North and South. - So we have to look
for an Egyptian King who never attacked the North,
but was powerful enough to attack the South. If you go through the list of
all the major Egyptian Kings who ever left Egypt,
you have Thutmose who invaded the North. You have Ramesses II
who invaded the North. You have Shoshenq who
invaded the North. He did not invade the South. If you go through all
those Egyptian Kings, you're left with only one
powerful Egyptian King who only attacked the South and that is Ramesses III. So it looks as though
Ramesses III is Shishak. (ominous music) - [Narrator]
Sanders is convinced he has identified the man who invaded the Holy Land
and looted Solomon's temple. He is now certain that the
original Raider of the lost Ark was the Pharaoh Ramesses III. (ominous music) Today Sanders is about to meet the legendary
Pharaoh face-to-face. Museum authorities are
intrigued by Sanders theory that Ramesses III is Shishak and have agreed to show him
something so extraordinary it rarely sees the light of day. - Now we are going to see one of the most famous
Pharaohs in our history. (gasps) - So that's Ramesses III. - This is Ramesses III. - He's remarkably
well-preserved, isn't he? - Yes, he is in very good
condition as you see. (ominous music) - Do we have any idea how old
he might've been when he died from the mummy himself rather than from the
historical record? - Our information is very
little about his actual age, but you can say he's around
40 years around these x-rays and from the thickness of
the bones, so the whole body. (ominous music) - If only mommies speak
what a tale they could tell of how that Ark captured. (ominous music continues) - [Narrator] Meeting
the long dead Pharaoh has given new hope
to Sanders quest to find the Ark of the Covenant and the holy Tablets of Stone. - There's no question that
the discovery of the stones would be the most
profound archeological and even political discovery, not only of the decade, the
century, but the millennium. - [Narrator] If Ramesses
III really was Shishak, where might he have
stashed the loot? Could Mike Sanders
be one step closer to actually finding
the lost Ark? (ominous music) Throughout history, many
great leaders in many cultures left magnificent legacies. Egyptian Pharaohs
out did them all. Medinet Habu, the
magnificent Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III. Mike Sanders has
dared to rewrite centuries of ancient history
with the bold hypothesis that the biblical
Pharaoh known as Shishak was in fact, Ramesses III. Here, Sanders hopes to pick up
the trail that will lead him to the great King's
most remarkable plunder, the Ark of the Covenant and the Tablets bearing
the 10 Commandments. Professor Mohammad Salem has offered to guide
Sanders around the site. Ramesses III was one
of ancient Egypt's last great warrior Kings. His 31 year reign saw almost
constant invasion and conquest of Egypt neighboring lands. Among so many images of
spoils from these conquests, one prize seems to stand
out above all the rest. - I'm here in the
chambers of the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III and the most exciting for
me and most interesting part is this wall where
there is a golden box and it's been carried
on golden poles and above that golden box is a solar representation
with wings. And it doesn't take too much
of a stretch of the imagination to see that that golden box
was the Ark of the Covenant carried just as the Bible
says on two golden poles and above it wing cherubim, exactly like the
cherubim in the Bible. - [Narrator] According
to the Bible, the Ark of the
Covenant was crowned with two winged creatures
known as cherubim. Sanders believes he's
made a major breakthrough. He claims he's the first
to connect these images to Solomon's great
temple in Jerusalem and the Ark of the Covenant. - There's one here, one
here, one over there, further down extra ones. This whole chamber
seems to somehow be dedicated in representing
where Ramesses III obtained his treasure and
obtained the ability to build probably the most magnificent
temple in all of Egypt. - [Narrator] Sanders
believes is Medinet Habu was built by Ramesses
in honor of Solomon and his great
temple at Jerusalem. He also suggests it's
probable the Ark itself may have been brought this far, a glorious golden spoil of
war displayed triumphantly and perhaps later
melted down for the gold but no one really knows. But what if it's
divine contents, the Tablets God gave
Moses on Mount Sinai? Medinet Habu was built decades after the looting of Jerusalem. Sanders believes it's unlikely
Ramesses would have held on to the Holy stones for so
long, then buried them here. Sanders thinks it's more likely Ramesses would have buried
the stones much earlier. So Sanders must now find one of the Pharaoh's
monuments built closer to the time he
plundered Jerusalem. Once again, the ancient records
are scoured for fresh clues. Written by Ramesses' sons,
the so-called Harris Papyrus recorded all of the
great Kings achievements. Amid the impressive chronicle, one anomaly has gone virtually
unnoticed for millennia. - What stood out to me was
the fact that Ramesses III had built a temple
outside of Egypt which is not a normal occurrence
for the Egyptian Kings in a place called
Djahi Pa-Kanaan. - [Narrator] And there
was another clue. The Papyrus reveals
that this unusual temple was built by Ramesses III at the site where he received
a consignment of treasure from the Kingdom of Judah. - For the Egyptian King to build a temple
outside of his domain purposefully just to
receive the tribute, it must've been a
massive tribute. - [Narrator]
According to Sanders, the most likely source
of this massive tribute was Jerusalem sacred treasure, the contents of
Solomon's temple, including the Ark
of the Covenant. What the candidate for
the temple identified, Sanders needs to find the
modern location of the temple at Djahi Pa-Kanaan. - Very simply, I
had asked my wife to go to the at Times
Atlas of the World, look in the index and see if there was
any Djahi, D-j-a-h-i anywhere in the index. And she comes back
to me and she says, "Well there is a Zahiriya
that looks similar D-j-a-h-i will that do?" I said, "Well, absolutely. Let's find out where
this place is." At which point amazingly by the
hairs at the back of my head jumped up because
Zahiriya on the Atlas was it exactly the spot
where an Egyptian King would stop his armies if he were marching
from Egypt to Jerusalem. - [Narrator] Could this
be the breakthrough Sanders has been looking for? If his theories are correct, then finding this
temple could also mean finding the actual
10 Commandments. (ominous music) Finding the Ark of the Covenant
and the 10 Commandments has haunted man for
nearly 3000 years. From crusading knights, to
the son of Solomon and Sheba. From Temple Mount to the Well
of Souls, theories abound, but hardcore evidence has
always proven elusive. Is Mike Sanders finally on the trail of the
Ark's divine contents? The temple Ramesses built
outside Egypt would be the key. Djahiriya was the natural place for an Egyptian army to camp after crossing the desert before the terrain becomes
treacherously steep and the army would be
vulnerable to attack. That would also make this town the logical site for
Ramesses to build a temple after his great conquest. - If the temple is there, the foundation deposits of the
temple would still be there and the stones may
very well be found in the temple deposits
in that village. (ominous music) - [Narrator] But fighting
over the Holy Land doesn't just belong
to Bible history. Djahiriya is situated
on the Middle East's most active political
fault line, the West Bank. Control of this area was only
recently handed over by Israel to the Palestinian authority and satisfying
biblical curiosity is not high among
Djahiriya's priorities. The Palestinian Ministry of
Antiquities and Archeology has given Sanders permission for a preliminary
survey in Djahiriya but they can't
guarantee his safety. - The children still stone cars, we hope they won't stone us, but in any adventure,
there's some danger and one has to face that this is much too
important request to worry about any dangers
that might be there. There's the sign. There we are. After
all this time. Yes, how many people
live here now? - That's about 18,000 people. - It's a bustling little town. - There's a good market here for the veterans who are
coming in from the South. - Yes. Everybody
comes from the desert, the first place to
come to is Djahiriya. It's like so that so that
hasn't changed in 3000 years. - [Narrator] Sanders search
will not be an easy one. Even assuming he is correct and this is where
Ramesses built his temple, after thousands of years, it's possible no trace remains
of that ancient monument. (ominous music) But Sanders hunches
are adding up. Evidence suggests
Djahiriya is the site where Ramesses camped
and built his temple. - So the Egyptian army would
come from the South here, build this temple
and it's overlooked the whole of the Hebron Hills as far as the eye can see. It's a wonderful
place to put a temple. - [Narrator] New
evidence, building stones that suggest they come from
an important ancient monument. - You can see a lot of
this stuff has been reused and it's all from
different periods. Look. You see these holes? - Yes. - Look at how nicely
squared off that is. There's one over there with
holes, this one here with holes. (ominous music) And then there's all
this other rubbish. Look at this, very nice. Look, the finish on here. - Yes. - It's perfectly shaped,
perfectly straight on the edges against, look at
all this other stuff that they built ordinary
fortresses with. This is what they use
to build fortresses. They spent a lot of time and
effort in cutting that stone. There was a special
building here. - [Narrator] Everywhere Sanders
looks, he finds evidence there was once an important
ancient structure here. - This landfill, for example,
is obviously much older. It was cut a lot earlier. It was broken before it was
actually put into place. I don't think we can get to say that any of the
stones are Egyptian but they're certainly
older than this building. - [Narrator] When he
came to Djahiriya, Sanders was concerned
there'd be nothing left of any ancient buildings. Now he has the opposite problem. With so many and so much rubble, how will he ever find the foundation of one
ancient Egyptian temple? (ominous music) More than 160 years ago, an American Explorer
named Edward Robinson passed through Djahiriya
and describe the ruins of an ancient
fortress light tower. Could Robinson have seen the last standing remains
of Ramesses' great temple? Robinson's tower was said to
have one distinctive feature, an enormous, perfectly
crafted, nine foot stone. Finding one particular
stone amid so much rubble is next to impossible but Sanders finally finds
the next best thing, someone who claims
to know where it is. - Perhaps he would know where that the nine
foot long stone is. We want to know where
the biggest stone of all the village is. (speaking foreign language) - I want to translate now. He's talking that he thinks
that it will be in the Hasson. Hasson means in
English, fortifications. He says the number is
about 3000 years ago. - Good. Now, where is it? Let's go. We want to go
and see it. Where is it? - He thinks that's over there. - This one, it's quite large. It's not the (indistinct)
but it's big. (ominous music) That's a nice large cut stone
here, but not nine foot. - Ah. - We're going 'cause we are
looking for the nine foot. (ominous music) You see this came from
different buildings, look. Look at this. You see these? These came from a different,
look, look, here we go. So here we go. - Yes.
- There it is. (ominous music) - [Narrator] Finding
the nine foot stone is an exciting discovery. It couldn't be the breakthrough that reveals the location
of the temple Ramesses built 3000 years ago. (ominous music) - This wall is absolutely
incredible in comparison to the rest of the village. Everything else has been reused. Why? Because it's practical for builders to reuse
small blocks of stone. When you're building a house, when you're building a fortress, you build a normal size blocks. It's only when you
build something that is dedicated to a God that has some special
spiritual significance, that you use something
out of the ordinary. And there, there is a nine
foot plus block of stone. Nobody in their right
mind would spend time taking that block and
putting it in their house or putting it in a fortress. And they're obviously in
their original position. Nobody's ever moved them, they were built specially
for this building and this is not a fortress. This is something special. This is it. Now this was put on
later. This is rubbish. - That's right. - All right. This
is where it was. - [Narrator] Sanders
believes he's located part of the original building. What's more, one of its corners where a foundation deposit
would be buried is accessible. - And the wonderful, wonderful,
wonderful thing about this is nobody has touched
it since it was built. - I see that. - Nobody's removed that stone. If this was built
by an Egyptian, there will be a foundation
deposit under there. - [Narrator] Could this be
the final piece in the puzzle? Are the sacred Stone Tablets God gave Moses on Mount
Sinai buried here? (ominous music) (instrumental music) Mike Sanders believes
he's found the site where the sacred contents of the Ark of the
Covenant are buried below the monument
Ramesses III built to celebrate his great
victory over the Israelites. Now though, he needs permission from the Palestinian Minister
for Antiquities and Archeology to dig under the cornerstone. Time is an approximate
commodity in the Middle East. After a two-hour
wait, Sanders is told the Minister won't be able to
see him for at least two days. Sanders uses the delay
to revisit Djahiriya. With him is Israeli
geophysicist, Yuri Bason who has brought the latest in subsurface radar
scanning technology. Now they can search for a cavity under the wall without digging. - This bottom corner is where I think a
foundation deposit may lie. So we need your
advice and your help. How do we find out
whether there's a cavity below that corner? - You would have to
clean a little bit especially to take
the metal out, metals out of here because the signal is
affected for metals. It is even good that we
have this kind of slope that this ground sloping
in this way because we want to look in at an angle
just underneath the wall. - Yes. - Okay? So it is perfect. - Let's do it. - Okay. (ominous music) (indistinct) (ominous music continues) Now I mark the corner. I will proceed now. (ominous music) Okay, we have
finished this profile. Let's go to the
point that I think that's something is found there. - Are you sure? - Yeah. Something. I think this is the location. You see the turn here,
a curvature here. I see evidence to
a stronger anomaly which can be a cavity. It's located only 2.3 meters
from our start position, which is here. Just to keep in mind that
this results are initials and we did not do any
sophisticated signal processing but still we see
major anomaly here. - [Narrator] The radar
anomaly could be a cavity, but its location doesn't
fit Sanders' theory. It's a few yards in
from the cornerstone where a foundation
deposit should be buried, but Yuri hopes more
evidence will turn up when he processes the data
more carefully back in the lab. Confident there is
something to dig for, Sanders returns for his delayed
meeting with the Minister. - He's not up here. We
have to go to museum. So we, somebody knows the way. - Yes, we can go down
the town. Down this way. - [Narrator] The Minister
has stood him up again but Sanders learns where
he's gone and gives chase. Still no luck. By the time Sanders
arrives at the museum, the Minister has
already moved on. Finding the Ark of the
Covenant almost seems simple compared with
meeting the Minister. Instead Saunders
visits Yuri's lab for more detailed results
from the radar scan. - Mike I think I have a
little surprise for you. Look, we found a second anomaly. It looked as if it is a cavity just underneath the corner - Under the corner.
Under the corner? - Under the corner, yes. - Exactly where they used
to put foundation deposit. - This is the anomaly
that we saw in the field. - And underneath which was-- - Underneath about 2.5 meters at a depth of about
1.5, 1.6 meters. But after I posted the
data at the office, all of a sudden this
anomaly came up. - Amazing. - Okay? And the
depth of the anomaly is roughly about three meters and it might be cavity. - Is there any
way of determining if there are any
objects in that cavity? - Mm-mm, not now, no. It's not possible
because it's too deep for this frequency to receive
a very detailed information. (indistinct chatter) - [Narrator] At
last, Sanders meets with the elusive Minister for
Antiquities and Archeology. - Bureaucratic nonsense
stupid buggers. (indistinct) Where did he find such a law? We can't do any
procedures, procedures. No scanning, no procedures. We had permission and he said, "Well, it's nothing to do with
the political establishment," whatever they want, who cares? There's a law, there's
an antiquities law. We need to make an application. We've got to have a
scientific institution. We got to have
financial backing. All we wanna do is
dig three inches to find the foundation deposits, they want to make a big issue. - He's my boss and
I can't do nothing. I have to accept his orders. - And there's nothing
we can do today. - [Narrator] Like so
many archeologists working in this
politically charged area, Sanders has hit a roadblock just when he believes he's on
the brink of a breakthrough. (ominous music) He's certain now that he's
made a significant discovery, finding the remains of an
important ancient structure and discovering a
tantalizing cavity under one of its corners suggesting the wall was
built by ancient Egyptians. If the cavity contains a
Egyptian foundation deposits, he will have proof of
a previously unknown Egyptian temple built outside Egypt. In itself, a major contribution
to ancient history. - I'm absolutely convinced that if the two cavities are
opened, we will find evidence that Ramesses III
built that temple. - [Narrator] Whether the 10
Commandments lie buried here, no one can say. But the trail of clues
has brought him so far and revealed so much. Sanders is determined to
gain permission to dig and prove his theory
once and for all. - I can't give up.
We're too close to what could be the
most important discovery of our generation. - [Narrator] For now
though, Sanders' theory and the name Ramesses III are added to the great
tradition of Ark legends, including King Solomon
and the Queen of Sheba, the crusades of the
mysterious Knights Templar and so many more. And yet, if it hasn't been
found after all this time, could that be what the God
of the old Testament wanted for the location of the Ark
to remain a mystery forever? (ominous music)
