ark of the covenant. the 10th century b.c. is the last time anybody actually really sees it according to the biblical tradition. now, there are other stories. and these all are related to the babylonian destruction of the city in 536 b.c., that maybe somebody spirited the ark out of the city just ahead of the destruction. reporter: many believe these underground tunnels were used to secretly transport the ark out of jerusalem when the city was under siege. and when the babylonian invaders took detailed inventory of the treasures they plundered, something was missing. the babylonians took all the treasures from jerusalem, it was not in the list anymore. the ark? yes. the ark was not in the list. there are all kinds of possibilities as to where it ended up. reporter: so we went in
search of it. one famous story suggests the ark was taken from jerusalem to egypt, hundreds of years before the babylonian siege began. that s where indiana jones goes and looks for it. we re told that sheshaq of the bible, an egyptian pharaoh, that he may have attacked jerusalem just after the time of solomon. yes. around about 980 b.c. and there is one theory that he took away the ark of the covenant. this is where we get the indiana jones theory. he may have taken the ark back to the city of tanis. reporter: archaeologists find the evidence of that underwhelming and believe the ark is no more likely to be buried in the sands of tanis than locked away in a government warehouse. bureaucratic what did they say? they don t know what they ve got there. reporter: strangely enough, our search for the ark also brought us back to jerusalem, to
the 10th century b.c. is the last time anybody actually really sees it according to the biblical tradition. now, there are other stories. and these all are related to the babylonian destruction of the city in 536 b.c., that maybe somebody spirited the ark out of the city just ahead of the destruction. reporter: many believe these underground tunnels were used to secretly transport the ark out of jerusalem when the city was under siege. and when the babylonian invaders took detailed inventory of the treasures they plundered, something was missing. the babylonians took all the treasures from jerusalem, it was not in the list anymore. the ark? yes. the ark was not in the list. there are all kinds of possibilities as to where it ended up. reporter: so we went in search of it.
the 10th century b.c. is the last time anybody actually really sees it according to the biblical tradition. now, there are other stories. and these all are related to the babylonian destruction of the city in 536 b.c., that maybe somebody spirited the ark out of the city just ahead of the destruction. reporter: many believe these underground tunnels were used to secretly transport the ark out of jerusalem when the city was under siege. and when the babylonian invaders took detailed inventory of the treasures they plundered, something was missing. the babylonians took all the treasures from jerusalem, it was not in the list anymore. the ark? yes. the ark was not in the list. there are all kinds of possibilities as to where it ended up. reporter: so we went in search of it. one famous story suggests the
one famous story suggests the ark was taken from jerusalem to egypt, hundreds of years before the babylonian siege began. that s where indiana jones goes and looks for it. we re told that sheshaq of the bible, an egyptian pharaoh, that he may have attacked jerusalem just after the time of solomon. yes. around about 980 b.c. and there is one theory that he took away the ark of the covenant. this is where we get the indiana jones theory. he may have taken the ark back to the city of tanis. reporter: archaeologists find the evidence of that underwhelming and believe the ark is no more likely to be buried in the sands of tanis than locked away in a government warehouse. bureaucratic what did they say? they don t know what they ve got there. reporter: strangely enough, our search for the ark also brought us back to jerusalem, to the church of the holy sepulcher, the place christians