According to Got Questions, the Ark of the Covenant — and, presumably, the remnants of the Ten Commandments tablets — bounces around the Biblical narrative here and there before disappearing completely by 2 Chronicles 35. It is believed to have been captured by an enemy king, and that is the last anybody ever heard of it. Perhaps it was destroyed in war. Perhaps it was hidden away somewhere and remains, forgotten about, ready to be discovered by archaeologists. Meanwhile, according to Revelation 11, the ark is in heaven.
However, a Christian group in Africa — the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church — claims to have the ark, following a series of historical events that won't be rehashed here. Specifically, as Smithsonian Magazine reports, the group claims to keep the relic in a treasury building near the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in the town of Axum. Only one person, the guardian of the ark, is allowed to lay eyes on it.
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