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The biblical king Solomon is said to have constructed a religious edifice nearly 3,000 years ago.
Accounts of the Temple of Solomon, largely drawn from the Hebrew Bible, say that Solomon placed an object of incalculable value within a windowless room of the Temple.
It was the Ark of the Covenant, a wooden chest decorated with gold.
Inside it were tablets given to Moses by God, inscribed with the Ten Commandments.
Remnants or artifacts from the temple have never been found.
About 300 years ago, the Temple of Solomon became a subject of intense interest to a gifted mathematician in England.
Isaac Newton came to believe that biblical accounts of the temple contained messages and clues that could be mathematically decoded.