After the country’s only commercial jet crashed, Hungarian born internet entrepreneur Andrew G. Szabo found himself stuck in the Guinean capital, Conakry, on a hot August morning. It’s not the most pleasant of places to be stranded, not even by African standards. He had to make his way to Mali’s capital Bamako some 1200 miles away. So, he found a half decent Suzuki Samurai with a local driver and embarked on a life changing journey across the African bush.

The Ark of the Covenant is one of the Bible’s holiest objects, and also one of its most maddening archeological mysteries. Since its mysterious disappearance in 607 B.C speculation as to its whereabouts have been rampant – if it’s ever unearthed it would be the greatest archeological find — well, ever!