Earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the mighty God and receive what I commit to you, and guard them until the last times so that, when you are ordered, you may restore them, so that strangers may ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is more difficult than it seems.

Declassified CIA papers have alleged that the centuries-old enigma of the Ark of the Covenant—a chest said to hold the Ten Commandments—might have been cracked in 1988 through a psychic venture. The ...