There should be a wilderness area (Hermounts) west and north of the City of Zarahemla, where the Amlicites fled from the Nephites:36 And they fled before the Nephites towards the wilderness which was west and north, away beyond the borders of the land; and the Nephites did pursue them with their might, and did slay them. ... Thousands of huge mounds, used for burial and other purposes. A chapter from the DVD "Book of Mormon Archaeology in North America" by Wayne N. May showing examples of Book of Mormon Armor and Battle Mound. We believe that there are good reasons to look on the west bank of the Mississippi in Lee County, Iowa. There were 29 mounds at the sites: 20 earth mounds, 9 stone mounds, and several village areas. For more info please visit www.hillcumorahhistory.com. Diggers might not visit the site for weeks, long enough for weeds and grasses to grow over the spot. Recently an article appeared in Ancient American magazine, describing it. From: David Hocking, Rod Meldrum, Jonathan Neville, Boyd Tuttle, Amberli Nelson, Wayne May, and Rian Nelson Whatever you feel is fine with us, but but we strongly believe the Book of Mormon plates were buried in the Hill Cumorah in upstate New York and the last battles of the Nephites happened near that same hill. This was a Hopewell burial mound. I did the research early as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to determine where the Book of Mormon took place. “The project identified 23 sites in the area that soon became the bottom of a series of lakes created by the dam. 7 p.258). It snowed in the city that day, the latest snow in Boston history. After dinner Wayne and Rod took us on a surprise mound trip. Saturday, June 11, 1842, was unusually cold in Boston, Massachusetts. The Heartland Model of the lands of the Book of Mormon has been promoted since 2004 by Rod Meldrum and Wayne May even before that. It's called Little Mound Cemetary. All around this Cemetary is corn fields. Also on that day, the Dollar Weekly Bostonian published the first in a series of articles written under a false name—a pseudonym—that were part of a scheme to change LDS thinking about the Book of Mormon. ... Scotford, with help from his sons and son-in-law, manufactured the relics and planted them in mounds or turnouts. The Mystic Symbol by Wayne N. May Publisher of Ancient American Magazine. The scheme would misdirect Book of Mormon … Editorial Position of the Annotated Book of Mormon . The Hopewell people would of lived in the back of the mound. “One of the most important events in prehistory is the early discovery of America by the ancient Egyptians. We already know that there is ancient human habitation in the area as evidenced by existing earth mounds. Wayne is the Editor/Publisher of “Ancient American Magazine”. Parallels of the Hopewell Culture as described by William C. Mills, Chief Archaeologist of Ohio, with the Book of Mormon [May 20, 1917; Sunday] by James E Talmage “Attended Sunday School and afternoon service in Hawthorne Hall, and was a speaker at each assembly. Evening meetings here, as also in Brooklyn, have been discontinued for the summer. Twelve of the mounds were found to be burial mounds and 17 had prehistoric structures associated with them. THREE SPECIFIC MOUNDS FIGURE PROMINENTLY IN LDS HISTORY Zion’s Camp March May 5th to July 3rd, 1834 Nauvoo Mounds Now Enter Current History ... Susan felt sure that we should call Wayne May and tell him of the new discoveries and that we had bought some of the mounds on the hill. Review of Wayne N. May's This Land: ... History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, vol. The reasons come from a reading of the Book of Mormon as it relates to the movements of those ancient people as well as from the surface.