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This golden disk found in Peru is an contains
an inscription of a calendar system. |
A few months ago they played a special on the Discovery channel about discoveries of America before Columbus. After talking about various theories about who were actually the first people to travel to the New World, they came to the conclusion that pretty much everyone discovered America at one point in time. They finally changed their question from "Who discovered America?" to "Who
didn't discover America?". Well today I am not going to talk about the discovery of America but the making of metal books. To those of us who are
LDS (such as members of our Reinventing Knowledge class here at BYU) metal plate writings might be of special interest because the Book of Mormon was translated from an ancient record engraved on golden plates. Although engravings on metal plates were at one point thought of as a rare occurrence, recent discoveries have shown more and more examples of this form of information storage. As you will see in this post, we might pose ourselves a similar question:
"Who didn't write on metal plates?"
