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1835 — Egyptian papyri
Book of Abraham translation claims emerge from mummy/papyri acquisition.
Open dossier200+ years of claims, conflicts, documents, and consequences
An interactive historical atlas
Trace the fault lines beneath Mormon history.
Move through events, people, artifacts, revelations, reversals, and institutional statements—from burned-over-district beginnings to modern Gospel Topics reframings.
Claims
Plates
Papyri
Polygamy
Priesthood
Temples
Essays
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Events connect to issues. Issues connect to people. People connect to documents.
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Start with a claim, then follow the documents outward.
Translation claims
Book of Mormon plates, papyri, Kinderhook, Adamic language, and evolving definitions of “translation.”
Authority & succession
Charisma, priesthood offices, prophetic certainty, institutional consolidation, and contested succession.
Embodied doctrine
Plural marriage, temple ritual, race, gender, sexuality, family policy, and lived consequences.
Modern admissions
Essays, footnotes, manual edits, apologetic pivots, and buried institutional concessions.
Research archive
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The interface is ready to connect to the growing research/ directory: Kinderhook references, Book of Abraham timelines, Ritner rebuttals, church admissions, and broader translation-claim context.