{"id":353894,"date":"2010-02-20T16:41:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T21:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22870"},"modified":"2010-02-20T16:41:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T21:41:35","slug":"zimbabwe-displays-%e2%80%98ark-of-covenant-replica%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/353894","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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 10px solid white;\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/47326000\/jpg\/_47326321_ngoma_lungundu.jpg\" 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":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}