Are there any archaeological discoveries regarding Book of Mormon claims?

Question

Cumorah? Bountiful? anything?

Heavenly Eyes, you haven't lost my attention. Go through my recent Q/A.

IMAMORMON2: Ummm, YOU might want to read through the websites, yourself!
Finding of artifacts: "No unusual artifacts have ever been found at or around Hill Comorah." 4 No evidence of the remains of domesticated animals have been found prior to the European invasion in the late 15th century. Similarly, there is no evidence of barley or any other old world plants in North America at that time. "...Bows and arrows...were not invented in America until A.D. 1000." Although there are remains of Natives who made use of meteoric iron and native copper, there are no indications that Natives smelted metals during the time interval covered by the Book of Mormon. There are no indications of the remains of sanctuaries, temples or synagogues. One would not expect to find synagogues, because none are known to have existed in the Middle East until after the Babylonian exile - decades after after the second emigration, as described in the Book of Mormon.

IMAMORMON; That quote was from the religious tolerance website you posted. Usually, you want to post things that actually help your position.

IMAMORMON2: I'm still reading through your website references. So far, it ain't looking good for you. Were you trying to bluff me?

Lex,Kerry,Coool: You need some references. if they've found bountiful, please give some details!

Answer 1

A) Not only is there NO archaeological evidence to support the claims of the Book of Mormon, but elementary genetics has established that there is no way that the Native American peoples of this continent can be related to the Israelites of the "Ten Lost Tribes".

B) As for the lack of evidence supposed by the earlier answerers, you guys are dead wrong! Sodom and Gomorrah are largely excavated cities located right where Scripture and local tradition said they were. The Tower of Babel has a possible connection with the ruins of a ziggurat found near the city of Nineveh, where tradition says the site of the Tower was to be found. It is also interesting to note that said ruins show emphatic evidence of destruction by fire, darned difficult to do with a structure constructed chiefly of mud bricks and stone! There are underwater formations which when studied proved to be the remains of chariot wheels and axles. They were found..... guess where? On an arm of the Red Sea, that's where. And in such numbers that it had to have been an army which met a disastrous end there. And just what army went haring off overwater in chariots, she asked? C'mon.
Sorry folks. You REALLY gotta learn to stay on top of archaeology today. They're busier than any beaver chewing up sycamores for winter fodder in October.

Answer 2

First of all, just for the fact that America let alone uneducated boy, didn't know about ancient America. and yet they where discovered after The book of Mormon.

Besides that, there are some physical artifacts the have been found. unfortunately, they are still in dispute by archaeologists (The church is not involved nor preaches about them). For example there is a vague "Tree of Life" stone That some say depicts Lehi's dream but that is still on debate. there is also some proof that some of the major cities went under some great geological events as suggested by the BoM.

One story I like is when ancient America was first discover by an explorer named Cortes. FACT: when Cortes first landed, the native people thought he was God. Why was this? It has been found since then that before Cortes landed the Aztecs believed in a "white God" that has visited them in the past and promised to return someday. How would the Aztecs know of a white person let alone "white God", unless one actually did visit them. Then BoM describes this clearly with the visit of Jesus Christ.

As for the argument that the BoM can't be true due to DNA testing: First of all DNA testing is not that accurate, more so if you go back a few generations. Not only that, the claims some make that certain DNA doesn't match is because they comparing the wrong civilizations. According to the BOM, all the Ancient American people are from Abraham. Not anyone else. to true compare DNA to the Jews or others you would also need Abrahams DNA to compare to his descendents. which of course is impossible. Although DNA comparison is great when finding an exact match, or parent/child relations. After that it gets fuzzy. Grandparent DNA matches can drop to as much as 25%. Now imagine this gong back thousands or years, then forward again to today. Of course DNA doesn't match. The DNA in question has had thousands of years to change, and any DNA specialist would say that that is way more then enough time for DNA to change beyond comparison. Try again DNA proponents your story doesn't match, by thousands of years.

Answer 3

No artifacts? Doesn't prove a thing! There is no physical evidence or artifacts to proof that God exists, either! But that does not stop millions of people from believing in Him! Does it?
You people can slam the beliefs oft these people until hell freezes over, it will not change their minds! And what does it matter to you, or any of the rest of these anti-Mormons, what the LDS believe? it is none of your business, and they are hurting NO ONE, with what they think!
There are enough sites, that give any amount of information on this Church! Check those out!
As for the rest of the anti-Mormons, when you get on this site and put down this religion, or any other, if you think this is Christ-like behavior, you are sadly mistaken!

Answer 4

They did find the land of Bountiful. A fertile plain just along the red sea, right where the Book of Mormon said it was.

There's also some shocking coincidences between the Mayans and the people of the Book of Mormon. Mayans recorded about a civil war taking place. The Book of Mormon does as well.

Answer 5

Central and South have numerous archaeological evidences that ancient civilizations lived there. The evidence is overwhelming. None of this was known in the early 1800's when Joseph Smith was translating the Book of Mormon. Seems like evidence to me.

Answer 6

DNA testing gave proof that the Book of Mormon is a hoax. Native American DNA is from East Asia, not Israel. period. There is NO evidence found of the supposed temples talked about in the book.

Also large passages in the book were copied verbatim from the King James version using the same words when the book of Mormon supposedly was written before the KJV of the Bible.

Also the book of moron (I'm spelling it moron on purpose by the way) talks about some plants that the people used and they weren't even brought to America until hundreds of years later by settlers. Joseph Smith didn't know this. He just assumed they were always here.

The holes of the fraud goes on and on.

Answer 7

“…easily no longer something, has ever shown up in any New international excavation which might propose… that the e book of Mormon…is a historic rfile bearing directly to the history of early migrants to our hemisphere (communicate: A magazine of Mormon theory, summer time 1973, pp.40-one, 40 two, 40 six)...oh wait

Answer 8

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What is the Book of Mormon? - Is it True?

According to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (a.k.a. "The Mormons"), the Book of Mormon was written c. 400 AD by, among others, a prophet named Mormon and finished by his son, an angel named Moroni. Supposedly, it was originally recorded in reformed Egyptian on several gold plates which were discovered in the back woods of New York state by Joseph Smith, a young farm boy at the time.

It was the angel Nephi who was said to have appeared to Smith up to the printing of the 1851 Pearl of Great Price. It is now accepted as the Angel Moroni who appeared to Smith in 1823 and told him that he would be able to find these golden plates at a hill near his home four years later, in 1827. Smith spent the next three years translating the plates into what is now known as the Book of Mormon, published in 1830. Interestingly, Mormon literature records a story of Joseph Smith running through the woods while carrying these golden tablets to avoid being discovered by those he'd heard in the distance. This seems rather impossible in light of the fact that the total weight of the gold has been calculated to be 276 pounds. It is alleged that Smith ran about 5 miles while carrying the golden tablets.

The claims of the Book of Mormon depend on verifiable truth and the veracity of its sources. Joseph Smith was known in his town as a person given to wild enthusiasms and had a reputation as a person with an overactive imagination. He died in a gunfight while in jail.

The people described in the text, the Nephites and the Lamanites, have no other historical documents or texts from their era (c.600 BC) making mention of them - these people groups are literally unheard-of in history outside the writings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Answer 9

Not to the best of my knowledge, rather there appears to be a complete lack of verification. One could say that there is less evidence for the Book of Mormon than there is for the Bible or Koran, and that is a very small amount.

Answer 10

Nothing that I have ever heard of.
There have been for the places and things mentioned or named in the Bible, but nothing from the mormon book.