Herod's lavish palace 450 metres above the Dead Sea was also the site of the Zealots' last stand against the Romans in 73 CE. Masada is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and our archaeological guide, Walter Zanger, takes us through this remarkable site.

The Society of St Vincent de Paul began in France in 1833 but its 19th century champion in Australia was the eminent architect and politician Charles O'Neill.

For its last broadcast, The Ark brings you five of the best, from its 300 programs since 2003. "Mrs God" makes an appearance, along with the magus, William Butler Yeats, the amazing Kimberley Plan for a Jewish homeland in Australia, the controversial Hindu rite of Sati, and we head inside the hallowed halls of Westminster Abbey. The Ark Online From 2009, all programs of The Ark will be available as transcripts, and later in the year all the audio of the complete archive will be made available for listening and downloading.

Professor Tudor Parfitt of the University of London has already discovered what he calls a "lost tribe" of Israel, the Lemba people in Southern Africa. Now it appears they are the missing link to the Ark of the Covenant, an elusive sacred treasure which Parfitt believes he´s finally found.

A medieval mystical text by an anonymous author, The Cloud of Unknowing was the catalyst for Father William Meninger, a Trappist monk, to embark on a mission to teach the spiritual practice of contemplative meditation to ordinary people.

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