The Lost Ark of the Covenant is the real-life account of an astounding quest: Professor Tudor Parfitt's effort to recover the revered artifact that contained the Ten Commandments sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Ark disappeared from the Temple in Jerusalem when the Babylonians invaded in 586 B.C.E. and was lost - apparently forever. Parfitt, who the Wall Street Journal calls "a British Indiana Jones," reveals the shocking history of the Ark and its keepers. From Israel to Egypt, Ethiopia, and the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, the journey leads to places Parfitt could never have imagined. He encounters a cannibalistic tribe in Papua New Guinea.

In Africa he is ambushed and shot at. In Yemen, he narrowly escapes being kidnapped by Islamist outlaws. In the end, legend becomes reality as an unknown history comes to light, and with it our understanding of this lost treasure is changed forever. Tudor Parfitt life's work has been to track down the lost tribes of Israel in Africa and Asia. As Professor of Jewish Studies at London's prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies and Fellow of the Oxford Centre of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, he has written widely on the history of the Jews of Africa and Asia. In 2006 he was appointed Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. As a broadcaster, he wrote and presented "In Search of the Sons of Abraham" for Channel Four, has written a number of documentaries for the BBC and was the subject of an episode of CBS's "60 Minutes." "Deemed 'the British Indiana Jones' by the Wall Street Journal, Parfitt is both scholar and adventurer.

This real-life account [is] a gripping . yarn. Recommended."- Library Journal.