Here'a an article from "Millenialstar.org"
www.millennialstar.org/how-manifest-destinyc-destroyed-book-of-mormon-evidence/#more-16759
About how BOM evidence was destroyed. Damn! If ONLY it
hadn't been destroyed the BOM would have been proven!
Basically when the Tennessee Valley Authority was building a
dam the area that would be under water was studied to extract
any archaeological data from it before it was under water.
From the website:
****BEGIN QUOTE****
"The archeologists came upon an amazing discovery when they
uncovered the ruins of a large stone and wood structure. So
unlike any other find found at a Hopewell site, British
Egyptologist, James Rendel Harris from the London Museum, was
consulted. At the site, Harris identified the structure as an
“Egyptian Temple”. A single newspaper article documents this
account.
"I know! Amazing! An Egyptian temple in East Tennessee of all
places, AND why is this fact not widely known??!!"
****END QUOTE****
So this Egyptian temple in Tennessee was declared so by James
Rendel Harris who was
(1) an Egyptologist
(2) from the "London Museum" (I assume this would be the
British Museum, the premiere Egyptological museum in London,
or maybe the Petrie museum in London)
and
(3) at the site.
That's some pretty high-powered endorsement for this having
been an actual Egyptian-style temple. What do you
anti-Mormons say now, huh???
Without naming Harris, specifically, he is mentioned in this
short video on the topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp__F3zf2n4Starting at 0:38 -- "The archaeologists saw something,
something, and I don't know what it was. But they stopped the
dig and they brought in Egyptologists from London, England to
finish the dig. Upon finishing the dig the Egyptologists from
England called it 'an Egyptian temple in North America."
Wow, now not only is the great Egyptologist James Rendel
Harris involved but he brought fellow Egyptologists with him
and they TOGETHER after finishing the dig, called it an
Egyptian temple.
How can there be any doubt?
The story has been repeated on many other videos and has made
its way through a lot of faith-promoting Mormon material.
The only problem is, it's a flat-out lie.
In the first place James Rendel Harris was NOT an
Egyptologist. He was NOT attached to a London Museum. He was
an expert on New Testament documents and worked in
Manchester.
In the second place James Rendel Harris did NOT visit the
site. The site was excavated by university students working
under anthropology professors. Harris, who had a pet theory
about Egyptians reaching the U.S., saw a photograph in the New
York Times about one of the sites that were being excavated.
From looking at this photograph he decided that it looked kind
of like an Egyptian temple (fitting his pet theory, which is
outside his area of expertise).
So no Egyptologists declared it an Egyptian-style temple and
no Egyptolotists visited the site. As usual a tangential bit
of information, hardly a blip on the scholarly landscape, is
massaged into impressive evidence by that time-honored device
of LYING.
Now you know the rest of the story.