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Yes, I did.
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You have no idea of his present whereabouts?
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Ah, just rumors really.
Somewhere in Asia I think.
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I haven't really spoken with him for ten years.
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We were friends but...been a bit
of a falling out I'm afraid.
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Dr Jones, you must understand that
this is all strictly confidential.
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I understand.
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Yesterday afternoon our
European section intercepted
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a German Communique that
was sent from Cairo to Berlin.
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You see, over the last two years
the Nazis have had teams of archaeologists
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running around the world looking for
all kinds of religious artifacts.
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Hitler is a nut on the subject. He's crazy.
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He's obsessed with the occult.
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And right now apparently there is
some kind of German archaeological
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dig going on in the desert outside of Cairo.
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We've got some information here, but we can't
make anything out of it and maybe you can.
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"Tanis development proceeding.
Acquire headpiece".
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"Staff of Ra. Abner Ravenwood, U.S."
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The Nazis have discovered Tanis...
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So what does that mean to you... - Tanis?
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City of Tanis is one of the possible
resting places of the Lost Ark.
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The lost ark?
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Yeah, the Ark of the Covenant,
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the chest the Hebrews used to
carry around the Ten Commandments.
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What do you mean commandments,
are you talking about "the" ten commandments?
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Yes, the actual ten commandments.
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the original stone tablets that Moses
brought down out of Mt. Heron and smashed,
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if you believe in that sort of thing.
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Any of you guys ever go to Sunday school?
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The Hebrews took the broken pieces
and put them in the Ark...
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and when they settled in Canaan, they put
the Ark in a place called the Temple of Solomon.
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in Jerusalem.
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where it stayed for many years, until,
all of a sudden, whoosh, it's gone.
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Where?
:16:52
Nobody knows where or when.
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However, an Egyptian pharaoh Shishak
invaded the city of Jerusalem
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around about 980 BC and he may have taken
the Ark back to the city of Tanis,