The Gold Plates of King Darius

Title

The Gold Plates of King Darius

Publication Type

Web Article

Year of Publication

2015

Authors

Publisher

Book of Mormon Archaeological Forum

Abstract

The finely-inscribed gold and silver plates of King Darius remain an example par excellence of ancient record-keeping using metal plates. Buried for millennia, they were discovered by a German archaeologist in 1933. They remain one of the best examples of the plates that Joseph Smith reported locating and translating into the Book of Mormon a century earlier.

Subject Keywords

Plates
Ancient Near East
Gold Plates
Metallurgy
Recordkeeping
King Darius

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