[delacoert]

No, I’m not. I’m interested to find out though.

[wendy1946]

Joseph Smith claimed to have used "prophecy stones" to translate hieroglyphic writings into two or three of the holy books of the LDS church, clearly figuring that hieroglyphs were something nobody could ever call him on since the best scholars had been beating their heads against a stone wall on hieroglyphs for the previous 2000 years.

And then Napoleon Bonaparte's troops found the Rosetta stone and a decade or two later European scholars were able to translate hieroglyphs without difficulty. At some point in the second half of the 1800s, real scholars actually translated those two or three "holy books" and they noted that Smith hadn't gotten a single word of any of it right, one of the items being a formula for brewing beer.