Meanwhile, Mormon archaeologists are still desperately seeking any trace of the vast ancient Nephite civilisation and the fabulous treasure they believe is buried out there somewhere. And they always will be...

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/10/viking-ship-discovered-norway-archaeology/

ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE FOUND the outlines of a Viking ship buried not far from the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The 65-foot-long ship was covered over more than 1,000 years ago to serve as the final resting place of a prominent Viking king or queen. That makes it one of the largest Viking ship graves ever found.

Experts say intact Viking ship graves of this size are vanishingly rare. “I think we could talk about a hundred-year find,” says archaeologist Jan Bill, curator of Viking ships at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo. “It’s quite spectacular from an archaeology point of view.”

The site where the ship grave was found is well-known. A burial mound 30 feet tall looms over the site, serving as a local landmark visible from the highway just north of the Swedish border. But archaeologists thought any archaeological remains in the nearby fields must have been destroyed by farmers’ plows in the late 19th century.

Then, this spring, officials from the surrounding county of Ostfold asked experts from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Research to survey the fields using a large ground-penetrating radar array. They were able to scan the soil underneath almost 10 acres of farmland around the mound.

Underneath, they found evidence of ten large graves and traces of a ship’s hull, hidden just 20 inches beneath the surface. Knut Paasche, head of the archaeology department at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Research and director of the recent work at the site, estimates the ship was at least 65 feet long. It appears to be well-preserved, with clear outlines of the keel and the first few strakes, or lines of planking, visible in the radar scans.

The ship would have been dragged onshore from the nearby Oslo fjord. At some point during the Viking Age, it was the final resting place of someone powerful. “Ships like this functioned as a coffin,” says Paasche. “There was one king or queen or local chieftain on board.”

No. It's not a Viking ship. It's one half of a Jaredite barge.

The other half was taken to heaven by Moroni (or was it Nephi?) to make us have faith.

So the unpredictable Viking God Odin and his more sensible son Thor have revealed yet another proof of their great civilization's existence. Meanwhile the great civilization of the ancient Americas sponsored by the unpredictable Elohim and his slightly more sensible son Jesus has yet to provide it's first relic. One chariot and some horse bones. Is that really too much to ask? A nice bronze sword. Surely satellites could pick up the remains of battles numbering into the millions.

However, we all know what the only fossilized relics the Mormons have to offer are.

Current Score (each relic counting for 1 point):

Vikings 5,210 as conservative estimate. Nephite/Lamanites 0 as generous estimate.

Fossilized relics (great term)...I probably will steal it sometime, forgetting to give you credit, but hey, I can blame that on my MormonCult indoctrination.

Can you imagine the hype Mormonism would create if they even found one single barge in a mound. Bring out two white hankies everyone and your jello salad concoctions and casseroles.

Done & Done:
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> However, we all know what the only fossilized
> relics the Mormons have to offer are:

One 94-year old fossilized relic: Rusty.

Very cool.

The Church must procure a couple of those ultra-wide, all-terrain ground-penetrating vehicles and get them down at once to the beaches of Peru where Lehi and his crowd were said to have landed on American soil.

Results in Norway prove that, with the right effort and technology, Mormons can uncover those fabled boats and validate the authenticity and total historicity of the BoM!