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Finding Cumorah - Expedition 1 Archives
Replica of Urim & Thummin - is this the Star of David?
This petroglyph is thought by some to be Moroni's actual signature.
It can be seen behind the ranger station at Filmore, Utah
Keeping Informed about Mesoamerica
- Here's a National Geographic News article about ancient horses in Alberta, Canada.
Horse head carved in rock near Cedar City, Utah. I took the photo myself.
- 3,000 year old monolith found in Mexico contains "new symbols" that "could change history."
- On Ancient Walls, a New Maya Epoch by John Noble Wilford, published May 16, 2006:
The origin of writing in Mesoamerica, the area of southern Mexico and parts of Central America, is a contentious issue. Zapotec scholars say writing started first in Oaxaca as early as 600 B.C. and spread into Maya territory to the south. But if it did, the San Bartolo glyphs show the time gap is closing.
"The text is 1,000 years before the late Classic writing, which we are good at reading — up to 95 percent of it," Dr. Stuart said. "Any script is going to go through significant changes over that time. But these glyphs are very unusual, very different from later writing."
This inability to read the text, Dr. Houston said, may be because the Maya system underwent a major change at the time the Preclassic culture collapsed, around A.D. 100 to 200, with widespread evidence of destroyed or abandoned cities...
(Please send me links and recently published articles that look like they belong here...)
Off Topic but very interesting.
Above is a UCLA image of the center of our galaxy. Could the bright nucleous at the center be Kolob veiled by dust? Click the image to read an intriguing article in pdf format by Dr. Lynn Hilton (author of "Discovering Lehi") titled: "The Kolob Theorem." The Theorem suggests that the center of each galaxy is the home of an exalted being such as our Heavenly Father. The Kolob Theorem html format - no photos.
Book of Mormon people have been speaking softly to us from the dust for years. Perhaps it is time now for mortals to hear them more clearly.
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