Here is a fun list of theories about what happened to the Lost Ark of the Covenant.

It comes from the Associates of Biblical Research http://abr.christiananswers.net/home.html

I am subscribed to their E-Newsletter. You can subscrive at the above website.

I would be interested if anyone has their own Theories. :o)

"The Lost Ark of the Covenant-Still Lost

Rev. Gary A. Byers

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ARK OF THE COVENANT?

1. Taken to Ethiopia (Axum) by Menelik, son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (see 1 Kings 10; 2 Chronicles 9; the Ethiopian royal chronicles (Kebra Nagast - The Glory of Kings)

2. Taken to Tanis, Egypt by Pharaoh Shishak (Sheshonk-1 Kings 14)

3. Taken in battle by King Jehoash of Israel (2 Kings 14)

4. Given by King Hezekiah as tribute payment to Assyrian King Sennacherib (2 Kings 18)

5. Destroyed by King Manasseh when he desecrated the Temple (2 Kings 2;, 2 Chronicles 33)

6. During days of Manasseh, taken by Israelite priests to Elephantine Island on the Nile and eventually reached Axum, Ethiopia (see 2 Kings 21; 2 Chronicles 33)

7. Hidden by Jeremiah on "the mountain which Moses ascended to see the heritage promised by God." (Mt. Nebo, Mt. Sinai or Mt. Olives - 2 Maccabees 2)

8. Taken by Jeremiah to Ireland

9. Hidden by Israelite priests beneath the Temple Mount before Babylonian captivity (Mishnah Shekalim 6:1-2; Babylonian Talmud Sotah 9a; Yoma 52a-54a; Tosefta Sotah 13:1)

10. Hidden by Israelite priests beneath Golgotha before the Babylonian captivity (Gordon's Calvary - Hebrews 9)

11. Returned to Kiriath Jearim from Jerusalem by Israelite priests before the Babylonian captivity

12. Taken by God to the Heavenly Temple, probably before the Babylonian captivity (see Revelation11:19; Hebrews 9; also Exodus 15; 1 Chronicles 28)

13. Destroyed by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon when he plundered and destroyed the Temple (2 Kings 24-25; 2 Chronicles 36; Lamentations 1)

14. Taken to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kings 25; 2 Chronicles 36; Isaiah 39; Jeremiah 52; Lamentations 1; 2 Esdras 10; Babylonian Talmud Yoma 53b; Tosefta Sotah 13:1)

15. Hidden by priests in a cave near the Dead Sea before the Roman destruction of Jerusalem (the Copper Scroll).

16. Taken to Rome and ultimately hidden in the Vatican (Josephus, Wars 7:148-149)

17. Taken to Rome by Titus, taken from Rome to Carthage by the Vandals, taken to Constantinople (Byzantium) by Beligarius, returned to Jerusalem by Justinian and hidden beneath the New ("New") Church in Jerusalem (6th century AD Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea)

18. Hidden at an undetermined time in a fully reconstructed Temple buried in the Hinnom Valley (the Ezekiel Tablets)

19. Swallowed by the earth (2 Baruch 6)

20. Transported to Yemen and incorporated into the Lemba tribe's sacred ngoma

21. Stored away in a US government warehouse somewhere in Washington DC (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Where is the Ark of the Covenant today? If someone knows, they have not been forthcoming. Not only do we not know where it is, we do not even know that it still exists. Wherever it has been for the last few millennia, the Lost Ark has still not been found.