Ancient X-Files
Season 1 • Episode 3: Philosopher's Stone And The Lost Ark • Watch with subtitles
Episode 3: Philosopher's Stone And The Lost Ark
January 24, 2011 • 45 min
Examining the medieval myth of the Philosopher's Stone, a Holy Grail-type relic which supposedly held the key to alchemy and immortality. Many noted alchemists and adventurers searched obsessively for the artefact hoping to learn its powerful secrets, a quest which allegedly drove some to madness and others to celestial encounters. It's one of the most coveted artefacts of the Bible: a gold-encrusted chest containing the Ten Commandments. Can modern scholarship explain the awful powers of the Ark of the Covenant and tell us how it vanished and where it is today?
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