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CONCERNING THE
DISCOVERIES OF RON WYATT
Presented by
Richard Rives, President
of Wyatt Archaeological
Research and subject to the unanimous approval
of the Board of
Directors, Wyatt Archaeological Research.
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ALL
NEW DVD
- EXPLORING
THE
ARK OF THE COVENANT - PART
2
THE
CULMINATION OF YEARS OF
RESEARCH REGARDING
THE
ARK OF THE COVENANT
EXCAVATION
FROM THE SURFACE
THE
DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT
ARTIFACTS
BOREHOLE
SUBSURFACE INTERFACE
RADAR SCANS
COMPLETE
DETAILED DOCUMENTATION
OF SAMPLES
FORENSICS
- MICROBIOLOGICAL - DNA
ANALYSIS
BONUS
FEATURES - CREVICE AND
BEDROCK - A CLOSE LOOK
In 1981 Ron Wyatt
located what he believed
to be the crucifixion
site of Jesus Christ. He
found a square
depression in the
surface material, into
which a cross could have
been placed, along with
an adjoining crevice.
Ron Wyatt said that the
blood of Christ ran down
through that crevice and
onto the Mercy Seat of
the Ark of the Covenant
that was hidden in a
cave below.
IN 2005
subsurface excavations
resulted in the
preliminary
documentation of the
crucifixion site as
described by Ron Wyatt.
In addition we were able
to gain new insight as
to the surrounding
buildings and the
cistern with its
plastered walls.
Those excavations were
extremely dangerous.
After consulting with
safety engineers from
the Israel
Antiquities Authority
it was determined that
the only reasonable way
to continue was to
remove the material that
had been deposited over
thousands of years - an
excavation requiring the
removal of as much as
twelve thousand cubic
feet of debris - the
equivalent of forty dump
truck loads. Steel
shoring would be
required to contain the
tremendous pressure of
the surrounding material
- a seemingly
insurmountable task -
but not for those who
are called according to
the purpose of our
Creator.
IN JULY, AUGUST
AND AGAIN IN DECEMBER OF
2006,
excavation from the
surface, literally
"brought to
light" a tremendous
amount of extremely
important information
for the first time on
over a thousand years.
Layer upon layer of
progressively older
civilization was
uncovered as the
excavation proceeded. A
Mameluke wall dating to
the 12th century was one
of the first
archaeological
discoveries, found only
six feet from the
surface, with the Roman
level being another
twenty feet down.
The work that was
accomplished during 2005
and 2006 was nothing
less than a miracle.
That is the only
description. A few
years ago, no one would
have ever thought it
possible. Not only
has our Heavenly Father
opened the doors, but He
has blessed our efforts
to learn the truth,
beyond measure.
At this time, Wyatt
Archaeological Research
is pleased to announce
the release of our new
DVD entitled:
"Exploring the Ark
of the Covenant - Part
2. The DVD documents the
complete excavation,
from the surface, all
the way down to the
first century Roman
level. Information is
provided regarding
artifacts dating as far
back as the time of King
Solomon, including a
cylinder seal depicting
the Syrian gods from the
time of Abraham. On site
interviews with Israel
Antiquities Authority
archaeologists are a
part of the
presentation, as well as
interviews with experts
from Israel
Museum.
In summary, this DVD
contains extremely
important information
for those who have been
following the account of
the discovery of the Ark
of the Covenant.
If you would like to
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Exploring
The Ark of the
Covenant
PART I
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of Wyatt
Archaeological
Research which
began in 2002 and
includes Radar
Scans, Resistivity
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in Zedekiah's Cave
and detailed
information as to
the identification
of the crucifixion
site located by
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BOREHOLE
SUBSURFACE RADAR
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DETAILED
DOCUMENTATION OF
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MICROBIOLOGICAL
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2006 Excavation Reveals
Plastered Enclosure
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The Ark of
the Covenant - The earthly
throne of the Almighty and
a container for the Ten
Commandments, the
stipulations of His
covenant with mankind,
which He wrote in
stone
with His own finger.
The
location of the Ark,
unknown for thousands of
years, has been the
subject of great
supposition, among Bible
students and
archaeologists alike. Is
it in a cave on Mt. Nebo?
- or perhaps concealed
beneath a church in
Ethiopia? While the
speculation continues,
there is one man who
claimed to have personally
seen the Ark of the
Covenant - Ron
Wyatt. Ron claimed to have
located the Ark in
Jerusalem, hidden away in
a cave system beneath the
Calvary escarpment, an
area referenced in the
Bible as as the place of a
skull, the crucifixion
site of Yeshua, Jesus of
Nazareth - The Christ, The
Messiah of Israel.
Not only
did Ron Wyatt claim to
have located the Ark, but
he also claimed that the
crucifixion took place
directly above the
location of the Ark - that
an earthquake at that time
opened a fissure between
the crucifixion site and
that of the Ark - and that
the blood of Messiah
flowed down through that
crack and on to the Mercy
Seat of the Ark of the
Covenant. The Bible states
that without the shedding
of blood there is no
remission. Ron claimed
that just as the blood of
sacrificial animals, the
blood of Jesus, the lamb
that was slain, literally
fulfilled the covenant
requirement for atonement.
Ron
believed that the Garden
Tomb was the actual
sepulchre that Jesus
occupied for only three
days and three nights.
That tomb is, as
the Bible states, only a
short distance from the
place of a skull and the
site Ron determined to be
that of the crucifixion; -
therefore his
investigations and
excavations were centered
in and around the area of
the Garden
Tomb.
In 1989
those excavations were
closed and since that time
there has been a great
deal of speculation and
controversy surrounding
his findings - controversy
that has caused a great
deal of anguish for the
Garden Tomb Association -
for Ron was not able to
validate his claims - he
passed away in 1999,
leaving no conclusive
evidence.
Since
that time, we at Wyatt
Archaeological Research
have been making every
effort to substantiate his
claims - to provide a
second witness that would
transform supposition into
established fact. In 2002,
after having received
permission from the Garden
Tomb Association and the
Israel Antiquities
Authority, our endeavor
began in earnest. The DVD presentations
are summaries of a tremendous
amount of work that has
been done over the past
four years - the most
labor intensive and
expensive projects ever
undertaken by Wyatt
Archaeological Research.
They are dedicated to our
Savior and to the scores
of volunteer workers and
contributors without whom
it would have been
impossible to accomplish
this monumental task.
Scripture
advises us to Prove all
things and to hold fast
that which is good. The
new DVD presentations are based on that premise.
That is the commitment of Wyatt
Archaeological Research.
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Excavations
just completed in
Jerusalem revealed what
appears to be a 12,000
gallon Byzantine
cistern. A
circular plastered
enclosure measuring
approximately sixteen
feet in diameter and
approximately ten feet
in height was partially
excavated. The
cistern having walls as
much as six feet in
thickness adjoins an
un-plastered circular
room which surrounds the
crevice which Ron Wyatt
associated with the
crucifixion site.
www.wyattmuseum.com/ac_update
A
date has not been
established for the
un-plastered room and at
this time archaeologists
are uncertain as to it's
function. Quoting one
investigator: "I am
perplexed. I have
never seen anything
exactly like this."
The
photo at the top is a
view of the excavation
from the surface some
thirty feet above.
At the bottom and right
side of the picture
steel shoring frames are
visible.
At
right-center the
un-plastered circular
room surrounding the
"crevice" and
"cross hole"
area can be seen.
Removal of the
overburden, by way of
the recent excavations,
made it possible to
reveal and define the
circular nature of the
room. In the past
only portions of the
walls could be seen on
each side of the
"crevice" and
"cross
hole."
A steel drilling
platform which was
employed in the
excavation is seen in
the center of the
room.
In the lower
left an excavation
opening is seen which
leads into the
cistern. This
opening was created as a
result of the recent dig
and is in addition to an
2005 opening through a
six foot thick cistern
wall that is built on
bedrock.
The
elevation of the
bedrock under the
cistern wall gets
higher as it extends
to the north toward
the cliff face. The man
made portion of
the cistern wall is
five or six feet high
where we cut through
last year. Near
the cliff face the
bedrock is at a much
higher elevation
requiring less
construction.
It
is interesting to note
that we find the
remains of a plastered
floor at the elevation
of the cistern rim.
The wall of the
circular room
surrounding the
"cross hole"
and
"crevice"
seems to have been
slightly higher than
that of the cistern,
as it extends
above the plastered
floor by about
eighteen inches.
It
is also
interesting to note
that the "cross
hole" and
"crevice" is
located in the center
of the unidentified
circular room.
At the
top-center sand bags
cover a portion of a
stone stairway.
The lower portion of the
stairway is missing and
seems to have been
unintentionally removed
by Ron Wyatt as he
originally entered the
area. Working
underground and in a
confined area it would
have been impossible for
Ron to have recognized
the nature of the stones
that had to be removed
for access.
Projecting down the
existing stairs, the
indication is that the
stairway would lead into
the cistern along it's
Northern walls.
The
second image is an
overlay of the 2005
excavation along with
the outline of the
position of the circular
walls as revealed by the
recent excavation.
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The Glass Finds
Natalia Katznelson
A
few fragments of
glass vessels were
found, including
the unique
cylinder seal from
the eighth-seventh
centuries BCE. The
seal was made of
transparent,
colorless glass,
which is quite
rare in such an
object; it bears a
wheel-cut pattern,
depicting a cultic
scene. A wide
perforation in the
center of the
cylinder may
indicate its
secondary use as a
bead. The other
finds consisted of
three fragments of
vessels on bases
with a thick wound
trail along the
edge (Figs.
4:1–3; 5), which
belong to a
well-known type of
conical beakers or
lamps from the
fourth century CE.
However, variants
of beakers/lamps
with similar bases
are rare in
excavated
assemblages in the
country. Other
fragments, also
dating to the
Roman period
(second–fourth
centuries CE),
included a beaker
(Fig. 4:4), a bowl
(Fig. 4:5) and a
jug with a ribbed
handle.
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During
August 2005 a
trial excavation
was conducted
within the Garden
Tomb compound,
north of the
Damascus Gate
(Permit No.
A-4549*). The
excavation, on
behalf of the
Antiquities
Authority and
funded by two
foundations from
the United
States––the
Wyatt
Archaeological
Research (WAR) of
Tennessee and the
Biblical
Archaeology
Foundation (BAF)
of Texas––was
directed by Y.
Zelinger, with the
assistance of V.
Pirsky
(surveying), I.
Berin (drafting),
T. Sagiv
(photography), N.
Katznelson (glass
finds), T. Ornan
(cylinder seal),
D.T. Ariel
(numismatics), C.
Hersch (glass and
pottery drawings),
as well as
volunteers from
around the world.
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The
excavation was
conducted south of
a natural bedrock
outcrop that was
identified by
General C. Gordon
in 1883 as
Golgotha
(Fig.
1). During the
1980s, R. Wyatt
excavated several
underground
chambers at the
site. The current
excavation cleaned
and documented the
former chambers
and additional
chambers were
excavated.
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The underground
complex was
entered by way of
a narrow natural
shaft (L100;
1.0–1.2 m; Fig.
2), descending 5 m
deep and opening
into an
irregular-shaped
chamber (L101, 2
×
3 m, 2.8 m high).
A narrow opening
(0.65
×
1.00 m) was
breached in the
southern wall of
the chamber,
leading into a
rock-hewn
corridor, aligned
east–west. The
passage westward
was blocked by the
collapse of earth
and stones;
eastward, it led
into a circular
building (L102;
diam. 3 m) whose
walls were built
of fieldstones
(0.3–0.4 m wide)
and were founded
on the steps of an
ancient quarry,
which descended
vertically c. 2.5
m southward. The
building’s
function was not
ascertained due to
the limitations of
the excavation. It
was probably part
of a residential
structure or an
industrial
installation. The
soil fill in L102
yielded an
extremely worn
coin that dated to
the Umayyad period
(697–750 CE; IAA
101943). Most of
the potsherds from
the fill in L102
dated to the Hellenistic–Byzantine
periods––a
spindle bottle
from the
Hellenistic period
(Fig. 3:7), a
cooking pot, a jar
and a lamp from
the Roman period
(Fig. 3:5, 6, 8)
and a bowl from
the Byzantine
period (Fig. 3:4).
Other finds
recovered from the
fill included a
krater dating to
Iron Age II (Fig.
3:1), a jar of
Iron Age I (Fig.
3:2) and a broken
animal figurine
(Fig. 3:3), which
is well known in
Iron Age II
Jerusalem. A
special find was a
glass cylinder
seal (diam. 0.75
cm, length 1.7 cm;
the seal was
identified as such
by C. Hersch),
dating to the
eighth-seventh
centuries BCE. The
seal is in the
local Neo-Assyrian
style and portrays
a worshipper in
front of a
crescent on a
stick,
representing the
moon god, Sin of
H
aran.
The southern wall
of the circular
building was
breached and led
into another
irregular-shaped
chamber, which was
not excavated due
to safety issues.
However, its
curved western
wall was probably
the outer wall of
a water cistern,
revealed in a
ground penetrating
radar examination.
The finds that
were disturbed by
the previous
excavation and the
conditions of the
current excavation
made it difficult
to understand the
remains. The
earliest phase at
the site was a
quarry, survived
by severance
channels of the
masonry stones. It
was part of the
extensive quarry
known from the
nearby
Zedekiah’s Cave
and Jeremiah’s
Pit. The ceramic
finds and cylinder
seal from the Iron
Age were perhaps
debris from an
Iron Age cemetery
in the nearby St.
Etienne, which had
apparently
extended over the
area of the Garden
Tomb as well. The
respective amounts
of ceramic finds
recovered from the
building indicate
it can be dated to
the Roman period.
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Ron
Wyatt's discoveries include Noah's Ark,
Sodom and Gomorrah, The Red Sea Crossing,
Mt. Sinai, the Ark of the Covenant and How
the Pyramids were built.
This
website is your direct and secure online
order link for all official publications,
videos and press releases.
The
following is only a summary of what you will
find in the main body of the site.
Ron
Wyatt is credited by the Turkish
Government with the discovery of Noah's
Ark. He has also made other very
important discoveries relating to Biblical
archaeology: including the discovery of
Sodom and Gomorrah, The Red Sea Crossing,
Mt. Sinai in Arabia and The Ark of the
Covenant.
Many
explorers have looked on
Mt. Ararat
for the remains of Noah's Ark. The
Bible however, does not say that
Noah's Ark landed on
Mt.
Ararat. It says that Noah's Ark
landed upon the mountains
of
Ararat. (mountains plural) An
examination of the Hebrew manuscripts of
Genesis reveals that actual wordage is
that Noah's Ark landed upon the mountains
of Urartu.
(The whole mountainous region in far
eastern Turkey. Ron Wyatt discovered
the remains of a fossilized boat
constructed of gopher wood and an
anchorstone in the mountains of far
eastern Turkey which the Turkish
government and their scientists believe to
be the actual remains of Noah's Ark.
The
Bible tells us that Sodom and Gomorrah and
all the plain was destroyed due to the
wickedness of the people there. In
the early 1980's Ron Wyatt noticed the
strange appearance of some
"formations" as he passed along
the shores of the Dead Sea. They looked to
him like city walls and buildings, only
whitish in color. For many years, he did
nothing about his suspicions but in 1989,
Ron discovered something that convinced
him that these whitish colored formations
weren't just geological formations, but
were actually the remains of Sodom and
Gomorrah.
Ron
Wyatt, when searching for the Red Sea
Crossing Site, found a beach on the Gulf
of Aqaba which could easily have held the
multitude, their flocks, and also
pharaoh's army. Ron went
diving in the Red Sea and found various
artifacts which he identified as chariot
wheels and chariot cabs. He
presented his findings to the head of
antiquities in Cairo Egypt, who identified
the chariot parts as those from the 18th
dynasty.
In
1978 Ron Wyatt found chariot parts in the
Gulf of Aquaba just off the Egyptian shore.
At that time, he knew that Mt. Sinai had
to be on the opposite shore. Since the
Biblical account tells how the people
arrived at Mt. Sinai after they crossed
the Red Sea; and since the Gulf of Aqaba,
which Ron knew to be the crossing site,
separates the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt) and
Saudi Arabia, there was no doubt as to the
location of Mt. Sinai being in Arabia. But
where in Arabia? Ron studied the
Biblical account and saw on the flight
maps of the area that there was a mountain
range in the northwestern area of Saudi
which he felt had the potential to be Mt.
Sinai.
Ron
Wyatt claimed that he found the Ark of the
Covenant.
He was never allowed to provide conclusive
evidence. "More and more we are
hearing of new books and tales about the
location of the Ark of the Covenant, some
based on theories and some based on actual
claims of sightings. Ron Wyatt also
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