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Finding Physical Evidences of Nephites in the Americas.
Book of Mormon Geography
Finding Book of Mormon Cities
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On the original Mormon Sites website you will read about exciting findings that are beginning to reveal possible geographic locations for places and events recorded in the Book of Mormon. You'll learn about the challenge Dr. Jerry L. Ainsworth, author of the popular book "The Lives and Travels of Mormon and Moroni," has accepted to provide physical evidence towards proving the location of the hill in Mexico where it's most likely that the final Nephite battles took place.
You'll find here a whole "Reading Room" filled with never before published articles by Dr. Jerry L. Ainsworth. This website reports Dr. Ainsworth's current explorations and discoveries as they happen!
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Statement by BYU Anthropologist
"Book of Mormon cities have been found, they are well known, and their artifacts grace the finest museums. They are merely masked by archaeological labels such as "Maya," "Olmec," and so on. The problem, then, is not that Book of Mormon artifacts have not been found, only that they have not been recognized for what they are. Again, if we stumbled onto Zarahemla, how would we know? The difficulty is not with evidence but with epistemology." John E. Clark, Professor of anthropology, BYU, Director of NWAF, Chiapas, Mexico. Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, Vol 14, No. 2, 2005 p.42 The entire article is titled "Archeology, Relics, and Book of Mormon Belief" published by FARMS 2005.
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Documents, Films, Videos, DVD's
Join with us at Mormon Sites as we work towards creating and compiling visual, internet, and printed media to publish to the world credible happenings in the newly emerging field of Book of Mormon Geography studies. A major film documentary is being planned.
There's a lot of interest in what we are doing. In our first seven months operating this website, we received almost one million hits and 20,000 visitors!
There is already so much that is known - and so much to tell as we gather the researchers and explorers, the film makers, publishers and writers, compile the evidence, explore some more, enlist your help, and do our very best to promote Book of Mormon Geography and the finding and proving of physical evidences of Nephites in the Americas.
This is not fiction - many people have been quietly exploring these things for years!
Not an Official Church Site
This site is not an official website of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and does not necessarily represent the views of Church authorities, LDS archaeologists, or of members of the LDS Church (the "Mormons") in general.
I, the writer, am the webmaster of this site and as such am responsible for everything written herein except where authors are cited. I do not speak for Dr. Ainsworth or for anyone else. One of my priorities is to make this website entertaining enough to attract a popular audience. However, there are gems on these pages that even scholars might learn from.
This website already contains a huge amount of information about Book of Mormon Geography presented in an easy language that anyone can understand. And it's growing. I believe that these pages will help you learn more about the Book of Mormon, and get closer to its people.
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Finding Cumorah
If you love the Book of Mormon and its people as much as I do, you'll want to learn all you can about our Finding Cumorah project, and what's about to happen south of the USA border. Knowing where the Book of Mormon stories played out has given me a fresh perspective on the Book of Mormon, and has brought to me vivid dreams of its people. It could happen to you too. You'll learn more about me and Jerry Ainsworth below.
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Reformed Egyptian Writings
There are now quite a few samples known to non-professionals of what could be Reformed Egyptian writings. It is my hope that scientists will soon develop enough interest in these to validly, reliably, and objectively test them. Here's a link to a FARMS article about Anthon-type writings.
Something of the Ancient World
"Something of the ancient world is known, of course, through written texts and the detritus of obscured and forgotten civilizations. What that world was like, however, can only be discovered; it cannot be anticipated, for it is wildly unpredictable and strangely unlike our world. That is why God, who not only knows the past but knows it perfectly, always startles "modern" thinkers, whatever and whenever their cultural milieus, by revealing things about the past that they don't know and therefore reject out of hand because they find them strange, foreign, absurd, antiquated, ridiculous, and generally repulsive to their "modern" mind-sets." H. Curtis Wright in introduction to "The Book of Mormon and Other Hidden Books" by John A. Tvedtnes, FARMS 2000.
Dr. Jerry L. Ainsworth is among those people, peculiar as their findings may seem, who pioneer outside the parameters defined by today's professional archaeologists, and continue to discover more and more about the ancient world of the Nephites. On this website he reveals his most recent discoveries.
I really like the attitude of professionals such as LDS archaeologist Dr. Richard Hansen quoted in the box below. (There's a photo of a cross in the article about Hansen. Dr. Ainsworth says of that photo: "I passed that cross by the way, on my walk out with Francisco. I had reached my limit and could not go any further. He told me he was going to leave me there, and pointed to the tomb of the last guy who got left on the trail. I decided I could walk a little farther!")
Dr. Hansen says: