This image depicts the mummy of a person named Sheshonq being laid to rest with a hypocephalus–a disk covered with prayers, incantations, and visual representations of various Egyptian gods, placed behind the head of the deceased to give warmth and divine power to his or her body in the afterlife. For a member of the LDS Church, the hypocephalus in this image probably looks very familiar, because it is based on “Facsimile No. 2” from The Book of Abraham, found in the LDS scripture called The Pearl of Great Price. Click to continue… »

The story Willard Chase heard may have been the earliest known account of the supernatural event that set Joseph Smith’s feet on the path to prophethood, but it certainly isn’t the only one. Click to continue… »