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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 ....
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 ....
Stone that used it in the second temple. we can see today in the western wall. reporter: the secretive freemasons even believe the stones mined here were used to build something much older. they say king solomon, the first builder, actually king solomon is the founding founding father. of the freemasons. the freemasons believe that they even took from this quarry stones to solomon s temple. reporter: and that temple of course was the last known resting place for the mysterious ark of the covenant. the 10th century b.c. is the last time anybody really sees it according to the biblical tradition. now, there are other stories. and these all are related to the babb lonian destruction of the city in 536 b.c., that maybe somebody spirited the ark out of the city just ahead of the ....