THE MYSTERY OF THE TWO ARKS
Two Arks. Two peoples. Two mysteries spanning the course of history.
On one side, Noah’s Ark, the great vessel lost among the glaciers of Mount Ararat. On the other, the Ark of the Covenant, the sacred heart of the people of Israel, vanished before the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.
Tito De Luca reconstructs a decades-long search, weaving together testimonies, expeditions, Armenian traditions, Biblical accounts, forgotten documents and the memories of men who claimed to have seen, touched or even explored the remains of the Ark.
Among abandoned villages, glaciers, Kurdish and Armenian shepherds, lost archives, political repression, controversial discoveries and ancient pilgrimages, a thread emerges linking the Caucasus to the Land of Israel, and two civilisations marked by diaspora, persecution and an extraordinary ability to endure.
Tevàh is not merely a book about two Arks. It is the story of an extreme quest, of faith put to the test, and of a question that continues to challenge archaeologists, historians and believers alike:
what would happen if one of history’s greatest mysteries suddenly came back to light?