* God inscribes the Ten Commandments upon two tablets of stones. Moses places them inside the Ark of the Covenant which will accompany the Israelites to the Promised Land. King Solomon places them in his temple in Jerusalem. When the Queen of Sheba visits Jerusalem, she is impregnated by King Solomon and gives birth to Prince Menelik. Menelik goes back to Ethiopia and is accompanied by Azarius, son of Zadok, the High Priest of Israel. Azarius steals the Ark from Solomon’s Temple before the departure and takes it with him to Ethiopia...

* The Ark is deposited in a chapel near the centre of the city of Axum (Ethiopia). It’s construction was ordered by Haile Selassie in 1965. Before the Ark has rested for many hundreds of years in the near Church of Saint Mary of Zion. Selassie was the 225th direct-line descendant of Prince Menelik... The citizens of Axum protect the Ark and only the monk responsible for guarding the Ark is allowed to enter in the holy ground... When the Portuguese friar Francisco Alvarez visited the original church of Saint Mary of Zion in Axum in the 1520s, the Ark was still in the church. In the early 1530s, the sacred relic was removed to escape the destruction of the armies of Ahmed Gragn. 100 years later, the Ark was brought back and installed in the second Saint Mary’s, built beside the remains of the first church. And there apparently it stayed until 1965, when Selassie had it moved to the new and more secure chapel.

* Chartres Cathedral (Eure-et-loire, France): The architects and masons made use of gematria (http://www.odeion.org/gematria/, an ancient Hebrew cipher that substitutes numbers for letters) to spell out obscure phrases in many of the key dimensions of the great buildings. The sculptors and glaziers concealed complex messages, in the designs, about human nature, the past and prophetic meaning of the scriptures. In the right bay of the north porch there is a full-size statue of the Queen of Sheba placed next to Solomon, and there’s is an image of the Ark a few feet away from that of the Queen.

* Wolfram von Eschenbach: ‘The Grail is a stone, not a cup’. Wolfram wrote Parzival (http://home.c2i.net/monsalvat/wolfram.htm) at the same time as the north porch of Chartres was built (late 12th or early 13th century. In this north porch there is a full-size statue of the Queen of Sheba placed next to that of Solomon, and beneath her there’s an image of the Ark. On the central porch there‘s a group of Old Testament patriarchs and prophets, including Melchizedek, priest-king of Salem, who holds in his left hand a cup containing a cylindrical object, i.e. ‘the Grail cup out of which comes the Stone‘)... Wolfram constructed his fictional Grail as a code for the Ark. The quest in Parzival is a code that might point to the last resting place of the Ark... Wolfram describes the Grail as a source of blessing and fertility for those who came into contact with it. As numerous biblical passages confirm, the Ark was a source of paranormal lambency.

* The Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Salomon: Knights Templar... The Christian Army occupied Jerusalem for 88 years, from AD 1099 until the recapture by Saladin in 1187. Shortly after the fall Wolfram started work on his Parzival, in which he describes the guardians of the Grail as Templars... The Templars were founded by nine French nobleman who had made their way to the Holy Land in AD 1119. Amongst these nine men were Hugh de Payens (first Grand Master of the Order) and Godfrey de St. Omer. As soon as they arrived in the Holy City, King Baldwin I of Jerusalem gave them a large part of the former mosque and its outbuildings immediately adjacent to the ‘Dome of the Rock’ which marked the site where Solomon’s Temple  (http://dyg2.tripod.com/id11.html/) had once stood. They used their occupancy of the Temple Mount to conduct extensive excavations. In recent years, Israeli archaeologists have operated immediately to the south of the Mount, and have found the exit-point of a tunnel which they identified as having being dug by the Templars in the 12th century...