The Ark of the Covenant is thousands of years older the Jesus...
It was carried by the Israelite's during their Exodus from Egypt, as they built it during the Exodus. The bible tells us that any Army that carried the Ark before it, into battle, was undefeated. It was eventually kept within Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem after the Israelite's settled their Promised Land.
However the Ark itself was lost after 586 AD when the Babylonian's invaded and conquered Israel and destroyed Solomon's Temple.
No one knows what happened to the Ark after that, it has never been found.
If it were to have been found, it would be the subject of international news headlines and churches around the world would be going absolutely nuts.
The Ark contained the original stone tablets upon which the original Ten Commandments were printed, by the Hand of God Himself, as well as all the other stone tablets upon which his "Covenant" or "law" was recorded.
This Covenant is the same which Jesus Christ replaced with Himself during The Last Supper.
Quoting: Nyarlathotep75 WE DO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED BUT THE BOOKS WERE PULLED AND CALLED FROBIDDEN
BARUCH WAS IN THE TIME OF JEREMAIH AND EZRA AND HE GAVE AN ACCOUNT
Chapter 6 1 And it came to pass on the morrow that, lo! the army of the Chaldees surrounded the city, and at the time of the evening, I, Baruch, left the people, and I went forth and stood by the oak.
2 And I was grieving over Zion, and lamenting over the captivity which had come upon the people.
3 And lo! suddenly a strong spirit raised me, and bore me aloft over the wall of Jerusalem.
4 And I beheld, and lo! four angels standing at the four corners of the city, each of them holding a torch of fire in his hands.
5 And another angel began to descend from heaven. and said unto them: 'Hold your lamps, and do not light them till I tell you.
6 For I am first sent to speak a word to the earth, and to place in it what the Lord the Most High has commanded me.'
7 And I saw him descend into the Holy of Holies, and take from there the veil, and holy ark, and the mercy-seat, and the two tables, and the holy raiment of the priests, and the altar of incense, and the forty-eight precious stones, wherewith the priest was adorned and all the holy vessels of the tabernacle.8 And he spoke to the earth with a loud voice: 'Earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the mighty God, And receive what I commit to you, And guard them until the last times, So that, when you are ordered, you may restore them, So that strangers [GENTILE] may not get possession of them.9 For the time comes when Jerusalem also will be delivered for a time, Until it is said, that it is again restored for ever.'
10 And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up.
