In Popular Culture
- The Ark of the Covenant is the main focus of Steven Spielberg's 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the same prop also appears in a cameo in a later sequel in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
- The Ark is one of four relics that must be recovered in the 1996 science fiction adventure game Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages.
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