What Happened to the Treasures of Solomon's Temple?

Cutting to the chase, a fundamental question pertains to what we often refer to as the Templar treasure: What is it and what happened to it?

The Templar treasure is presumed to involve artifacts that the Templars recovered in Jerusalem, specifically the Ark of the Covenant and treasures of the First Temple of Solomon. Ok. This evokes another question: Why were the Ark and artifacts from the First Temple of Solomon presumed as important to the Templars? The answer to this question is the golden thread, the underground stream, that connects and flows through who the founding Templars were. The root of the answer goes back to ancient Mesopotamia and stories pertaining to their pantheon of gods.

We explore the Templar treasure, presumed to include the Ark of the Covenant and First Temple artifacts, linking their significance to the Templars through Mesopotamian mythology and biblical narratives. We trace the Table of Destinies – also called the Emerald Tablets or Philosophers’ Stone – from the god Anu to Moses via a lineage of deities and patriarchs, equating them to the Urim and Thummim worn in the high priest’s breastplate (Choshen). The Shamir, a mythical stone-cutting tool created on the sixth day of creation, was used by Moses to engrave the breastplate’s stones and by Solomon to build the Temple without iron, disappearing after its destruction in 586 BC. The Holy Grail is identified as the gold plate on the high priest’s mitre, while Moses’s staff equated to a scepter, a symbol of authority with divine origins, passed through generations until lost post-Temple destruction. These treasures, tied to the Ark and Mesopotamian roots, are speculated to have been rediscovered by the Templars in a sealed chamber beneath Solomon’s Temple, though their fate remains unknown after the Babylonian invasion.