I just had a little blurb article show up on my Google News feed about a Mormon religious scholar lecturing about the swords mentioned in the Book of Mormon.
Seems those ancient meso-Americans that JC appeared to had a variety of steel swords and other weapons.
Unfortunately, no such artifacts have ever been known, nor any metalworking at all other than copper.
We know the Aztec had those obsidian-edged macuahuitl, and various Amerind tribes had hardwood war-clubs that had sort-of sharpened edges, but no steel.
So the good scholar, rather than assuming that perhaps the Book Of Mormon was simply wrong, decided that the technology to make steel was "lost".
Funny how that would work. In order to make steel, you need a lot of stuff... Mining operations, smelting facilities, forging facilities, all the tools that go along with all that....
Lost as well, no doubt.
Seems those ancient meso-Americans that JC appeared to had a variety of steel swords and other weapons.
Unfortunately, no such artifacts have ever been known, nor any metalworking at all other than copper.
We know the Aztec had those obsidian-edged macuahuitl, and various Amerind tribes had hardwood war-clubs that had sort-of sharpened edges, but no steel.
So the good scholar, rather than assuming that perhaps the Book Of Mormon was simply wrong, decided that the technology to make steel was "lost".
Funny how that would work. In order to make steel, you need a lot of stuff... Mining operations, smelting facilities, forging facilities, all the tools that go along with all that....
Lost as well, no doubt.
via International Skeptics Forum http://ift.tt/2bVmulo
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