What do you do with Book of Mormon artifacts that you find?

I found those gold plates back in the woods right where Moroni left them.

I have then framed hanging in my library.

You can read ancient Egyptian? Really? Do you know the common word for that?

If you're talking about 350AD, do you know the language the Egyptians were using then? Because I know after Alexander, it was Ptolemy who took control of Egypt, so most correspondence was in Greek.

Please give the website these things can be seen- please- we would all be interested because the genetic tests proved the Native Americans came from China originally and not Jewish. There were no artifacts found, the golden tablets were taken off to heaven by Moroni.

Swords were very common. They were actually much more dangerous than the Spanish swords, and could lope off a horses head in one swipe. They were made of wood, lined with basalt. The Mayan armor was also far superior to that of the Spanish, and the Spanish bought the light-weight cotton armor from the Mayans, finding their heavy metal armor to hot to wear in the climate. The cotton armor was surprisingly effective. The Mayans had chariots as well, but not Roman chariots. Chariot translates to "riding seat". Kings and generals were carried everywhere in these riding seats. They weren't pulled by horses, but carried by servants. Of course, the Nephites weren't Mayan. They were probably conquered by the Mayan. They Maya, like the Lamanites of the Book of Mormon, practiced war as a religion; they sought to capture men, women and children to sacrifice to their Gods of War. The Mayan didn't have gold coins, or at least we don't believe that they did. Since they weren't Nephites, it doesn't really matter. The Nephites didn't have gold coins either. They did use weights of gold to measure grain, an authentic practice of pre-coinage civilizations. In fact the method mentioned in the Book of Mormon is virtually identical to the Egyptian system in use at the time.

The Lacondan Maya trace their ancestors back to a man named Jawbone, who came across the ocean. This is made more relevant by the fact the Lehi is Hebrew for Jawbone, Lehi being the father of two nations, both the Nephites and the Lamanites.

There is no doubt in my mind that the Book of Mormon is absolutely authentic. It gets too many details right. Joseph Smith was not an expert on Arabian geography, olive husbandry, Hebrew literary styles, or guerilla warfare. Whoever wrote the Book of Mormon - many people according to the University of California at Berkeley - were experts in all these areas.

I do have one authentic Book of Mormon artifact. I have a printed copy of the translation. It is worth more than gold, to me.

Humor me and tell me what these artifacts in East Jerusalem are - do they find pottery and that proves that the bible is true? In which case I'll match any piece of pottery from the Holy Land with any rock in Meso-America since Samuel the Lamanite had rocks thrown at him so the existence of rocks proves the Book of Mormon to be true!

Any day now somebody is going to dig up a big sign that says "the book of Mormon is true" from the ground. Until then, LIKE THE BIBLE, I'll just take it on faith!

Honestly they would be more valuable if they discredited the Book of Mormon. The LDS church has been known to pay massive sums of

Money for anything that suggests Joseph Smith made up his stories, even if those items are fairly obvious fakes. They want to control those items and (presumably) destroy them so no one sees such affronts to their faith.

Have you checked out any of the museums down that way?

Some people have and have found some interesting pre-columbian artifacts thatSupport the Book of Mormon.

I put them over my fireplace.

Seriously - most of the events in the BofM took place over 2000 years ago, and there are very very few artifacts that old. What we have is so old that we have no way to tell if they are from the BofM civilizations or not.

You find a bowl that is 2600 years old. Was that the bowl Nephi ate his breakfast cereal in? Or was it from some other civilization that lived 2000 miles down the road? We have no way to tell.

Quite. I'd like to visit all the LDS museums housing Book of Mormon artifacts and determine for myself that mormonism is "true", complete with free burning bosom experience and all. The whole shebang!

What? Not a single one exists, you say? Oh well. It's off to Disneyland for me instead.

Same difference, eh mormons?

I found many such artifact in my back yard as well. Oh you want to see them? Well you can't because an Angel took them away. LOL

But then again rrosskopf is better at sarcasm than I am. Just check out his comments.

Ancient American history and the Book of Mormon

http://youtu.be/U-sgVTgfdKg

Paleoindians, their descendants and the Book of Mormon

http://youtu.be/tTH9dHUmLcY

The Book of Mormon is written to the Lamanites

http://youtu.be/YXVKliV_0gE