Solves the mystery of antiquity's greatest relic: The Ark of the Covenant.The fate of the Ark has always excited the popular imagination -- from Rider Haggard's fiction to Stephen Spielberg's movie.Graham Hancock's investigation of the Ark's fate, THE SIGN AND THE SEAL, was an international bestseller despite revealing nothingThe result of ten years' research by respected academics Grierson (Fellow of the W E B Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University) and Munro-Hay (Visiting Professor at the University of Berlin).