This week, we're looking at the amazing life of Dr. Henry Jones, Jr. and his discovery of the Ark of the Covenant! This one's got it all - guerilla archaeology, Nazis, and a prize of biblical proportions. We'll talk about the history of the Ark, its disappearance from the historical record, and its re-emergence and re-discovery in the 1930s. Nearly everyone directly involved with the project died in a mysterious explosion which took place at the opening of the Ark in 1936; we'll discuss what little is known of that, and take a look at the amazing life of Dr. Jones. Additional sidebars include the federal gag order on the Ark project participants, the current whereabouts of the Ark itself, and a little background on the great 1981 documentary on the subject.

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Sources for this episode include:

Freedom of Information Act Request 34-6897B (filed in 2008, released in 2015)

"Document 9906753" by Top Men.

"Raiders of the Lost Ark", PBS documentary by S. Spielberg, 1981