In Reply to: the ark of the covenant posted by slabs on February 07, 2010 at 14:06:32:

The Ark of the Covenant is reputed to have contained the Tablets of Stone on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed.
During the turn of the 20th century British Israelites carried out some excavations of the Hill of Tara looking for the Ark of the Covenant. The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland campaigned to have them stopped before they ruined the hill.