It was back in 1983 that Graham Hancock, author of the multi-million-selling book Fingerprints of the Gods, experienced a revelation that would change his life. At the time a humble freelancer for the Economist in east Africa, he heard mention of a myth which claimed that the Ark of the Covenant had for many centuries been guarded by a secret sect of monks in Ethiopia. Then, one day, he came across a dark, windowless room partially illuminated along one wall by a fantastic flicke ...