{"id":673124,"date":"2010-02-20T16:41:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T21:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22870"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:48:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:48:51","slug":"zimbabwe-displays-ark-of-covenant-replica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/673124","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Displays \u2018Ark of Covenant Replica\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/8522097.stm\">BBC News<\/a>:<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 10px solid white;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/47326000\/jpg\/_47326321_ngoma_lungundu.jpg?resize=226%2C170\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>A wooden object claimed to be a replica of the  Biblical Ark of the Covenant has gone on display at a Zimbabwe museum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The  &#8220;ngoma lungundu&#8221; belongs to the Lemba people &#8211; black Africans who claim  Jewish ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>They say the vessel was built almost 700 years  ago from the remains of the original Ark, which the Bible says was used  to store Moses&#8217; 10 Commandments.<\/p>\n<p>For decades the ancient vessel  was thought to be lost, until it was found in a storeroom in Harare  recently.<\/p>\n<p>Tudor Parfitt, who rediscovered the  artefact three years ago, told the BBC he believed it was the oldest  wooden object ever found in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On each corner there is the remnants of a wooden ring, and obviously at  one point, it was carried by inserting poles&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BBC News: A wooden object claimed to be a replica of the Biblical Ark of the Covenant has gone on display at a Zimbabwe museum. The &#8220;ngoma lungundu&#8221; belongs to the Lemba people &#8211; black Africans who claim Jewish ancestry. They say the vessel was built almost 700 years ago from the remains of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2P6Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772197,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673124\/revisions\/772197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}