This is a series of ten episodes over two seasons. It starts each episode with the statement that if you peel back the archeology of the Americas you just might find the Book of Mormon.
Episode 1: Who Are the Mound Builders. This episode points out that the time line of the Hopewell Mound builders matches the timeline of the Nephites of the Book of Mormon. hey start in as early as 600 B.C. in Florida and then disappear in upstate New York in 400 A.D. There are significant number of sites which include religious sites, burial mounds, and fortifications. There are up to a million mound sites in North America, but many have been destroyed, plowed under, or not yet identified. Wayne May, Rod Meldrum.
Episode 2: The Origin of the Central American Model. How did we become convinced that the Book of Mormon took place Central America. This points back to an article in the Times and Seasons which was edited by Joseph Smith. However questions exist as to his actual involvement of this article. This is compared to his and Oliver Cowdery saying things happened in North America. Jonathan Nelville
Episode 3: Manifest Destiny. This presents the claim that the U.S. government and the Smithsonian Institute under the direction of John Wesley Powell deliberately destroyed evidence or called any evidence outside the narrative fraud. Any artifact before Columbus had to be fake. This was to justify the concept of Manifest Destiny and the idea that the Native Americans were savages.
Episode 4: Hebrew in America. Artifacts with Hebrew have been discovered in North America. The Bat Creek Stone was discovered and thought to be ancient Cherokee. However a linguist turned it up side down and said it is ancient Hebrew. Scholars consider it a fake. The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone is claimed by some to be the ten commandments in Hebrew. Again this is refuted. There is another Decalogue stone with the ten commandments written on all sides of it in Hebrew. Lastly there is a mound which was recorded but then destroyed, which shows a menora and an oil lamp.
Episode 5: The Great Earthquake of 1811-1812. Centered around New Madrid, Missouri along the Mississippi River there were a series of earthquakes which created events which mimic the destruction in the Book of Mormon at the time of Christ's death. There was darkness, the Mississippi flowed backwards, lakes were drained and lakes were formed, there were sand geysers, there was fire and cities destroyed.
Episode 6: America the Covenant Land. George Washington talked about America as the covenant land, and Abraham Lincoln checked out the Book of Mormon from the Library of Congress. Joseph Smith had been assassinated while running for president on an abolitionist platform 16 years prior to Lincoln being president. Tim Ballard explains the idea of America being a covenant land.
Episode 7: The Kinderhook Plates. Joseph Smith was presented with some plates people said they found in a mound. Joseph Smith at first glance said they were authentic; however he never translated them. These plates disappeared, but once has since been found. However this plate does not match any of the etchings made of the plates. It is now said to be a great hoax.
Season 2
Episode 1: Crossing the Seas. It has now been shown that ocean travel was possible using ancient means. Phillip Beale constructed a boat using ancient tools and materials after the pattern of the Phoenicians. He was able to circumnavigate Africa; however in his journey he almost landed in America, close to Florida. He later did travel to America from the Mediterranean.
Episode 2: The 2-Hill Cumorah Theory. This episode confronts the impracticality of the Book of Mormon taking place in Meso America, but the plates being found in the Hill Cumorah in New York. This movie documents that people have taken artifacts from the Hill Cumorah area for years and years. Bucket loads of arrow heads and other artifacts have been hauled away. There is a book store in Palmyra with a small museum of artifacts.
Episode 3: Archeoastronomy. In this episode we see comparison of the mounds to Stone Henge, which has been shone to have astronomical properties. The same is true of the mounds, incuding the Serpent Mound.
This series is narrated by Scott Christopher. It is available on LDS Scriptures. I really enjoyed this series. Of course a true testimony comes through the Holy Ghost and applying Moroni's promise. However it is good to know that evidences to the Book of Mormon are more and more prevalent
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