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Book of Mormon Lands Lehite Old World Map January 2016
This is my best effort at a map of the Book of Mormon lands traversed by Lehi and his family in the Old World.Old World Book of Mormon Lands ca. 600 BCThis map derives from the excellent work done by...
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Red Herrings
The Book of Mormon was first offered for sale to the public in Palmyra, New York on March 26, 1830. I am writing this on January 27, 2016. The Book of Mormon has been generally available now for 67,878...
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You Tube
Book of Mormon Central has now been publishing KnoWhys five times a week for a month. Each KnoWhy is a brief, illustrated, foot-noted essay about some interesting facet of the Book of Mormon and its...
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Partake of the Fruit
Kaminaljuyu (KJ), A-List candidate for the city of Nephi, was the largest and most important site in the Maya highlands during Book of Mormon times. It was located precisely where modern Guatemala City...
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Anthropomorphic Trees
Mesoamerican iconography shows the curious idea that trees or other large plants can grow in or from humans. Here is one example from page 34 of the post-classic Codex Fejervary-Mayer thought to have...
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Sea Divides the Land
I was in the lobby of the Grand Tikal Futura Hotel in Guatemala City visiting with Rolando Amado on Dec. 26, 2015. He is a native Guatemalan who knows the country well. As an agronomist and lay...
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Kaminaljuyu
Dave Gray of Warwick, Queensland, Australia was my roommate for 10 days recently while we wandered around Guatemala as part of a tour group led by Mark Wright. After Guatemala, I promptly returned home...
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Origins of K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo'
K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' (KYKM) founded a Copan dynasty that ruled for nearly 400 years from AD 426 to 820. T. Douglas Price of the University of Wisconsin - Madison and Robert J. Sharer of the University...
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Takeshi Inomata
Takeshi Inomata is one of the foremost dirt archaeologists currently excavating in Mesoamerica. He has worked extensively at the sites of Aguateca and Ceibal.Aguateca and Ceibal in the Petexbatun...
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Omani Metal Bows
1 Nephi 16:18 tells the story of Nephi's broken steel bow. The incident happened ca. 600 BC along the Red Sea coast of modern Saudi Arabia. See the article "Book of Mormon Lands Lehite Old World Map...
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Book of Mormon Temples Fireside
Book of Mormon Central has been publishing terrific material since January 1, 2016. It is time for the group to produce an event. To celebrate the dedication of the Provo City Center Temple, Book of...
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Book of Mormon Day 2016
Saturday, March 26th, 2016 is the 186th anniversary of the day the Book of Mormon first went on sale in Palmyra, New York. To commemorate the event, people worldwide are using hashtag #BOMDAY to:post...
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Lehi and Sariah in Arabia
We have all heard people say "I liked the movie, but the book is better." That is certainly the case with Warren Aston's latest publication. Information about his excellent 2015 DVD is in the article...
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Easter 2016
Here are a few of the outstanding things Book of Mormon Central is doing to celebrate the International Day of the Book of Mormon on March 26th, General Conference on March 26th and April 2-3rd, and...
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Ubiquitous Narrow Strip
In 2011 when I began this blog, satellite imagery was not as advanced or as widely available as it is today. When I went looking for a natural feature that matched the text's description of the narrow...
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My Testimony on #BoMDay and Easter
This is a photo of me, Kirk Magleby, holding the Yale 2009 text at the Shoshone Falls lookout point near Twin Falls, Idaho on March 26, 2016.Reading the Book of Mormon on Book of Mormon DayPhoto by...
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Men from the East Wearing Red
Mark Wright of the BYU Religion faculty is one of the brightest Book of Mormon scholars in the contemporary Church. He holds a PhD from UC Riverside where he studied under the eminent Karl Taube. I am...
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Big River
Many Book of Mormon students have the mistaken notion that the Nephites and Lamanites waded across river Sidon. This may stem from the iconic representations most of us have seen of the Mormon Pioneers...
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Conference Art #LDSconf
Book of Mormon Central tried an experiment during the recently completed General Conference. As speakers quoted from or made significant mention of the Book of Mormon we posted a meme on Facebook and...
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Translations
On this day in history, Sunday, April 5, 1829, Oliver Cowdery met Joseph Smith for the first time. The place was Harmony (modern Oakland), Pennsylvania. The translation miracle was about to unfold...
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