*Ø* Blogmanac | Mormon church donates debunked artifacts to museum

"GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) – Some of the now-debunked Michigan Relics – once considered by some influential Mormons as evidence of the church's connection to a Near Eastern culture in ancient America – have a new home.

"For decades, the Mormon Church kept a large collection of the artifacts in its Salt Lake City museum, but never formally claimed them to be genuine.

"This past summer, after scholars examined the relics and declared them fakes, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints donated the 797 objects to the Michigan Historical Museum, which will display them next month ..."
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Was the Book of Mormon taken from a rough draft of a novel written by Solomon Spalding? I don't know, but this site says "No".

"The Rev. Solomon Spalding (1761-1816) was a lapsed Calvinist clergyman, a failed businessman, and the would-be author of a pre-historic American epic story explaining the lost civilization of the "Mound Builders." Since 1833 he has been credited by some scholars and writers as being the original author of a portion of The Book of Mormon."
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