.an Italian excavator working in Egypt uncovered eleven well-preserved mummies in a large tomb on the west bank of the Nile River. By 1835, the four mummies that had not yet been sold to collectors in the eastern United States found their way in a traveling exhibit to Kirtland, Ohio....Believing the mummies were worth owning, Joseph engaged the assistance of a number of church members in Kirtland to purchase them on behalf of the Church.quot;-Quoted from Coke Newell's quot;The Latter Daysquot;------------------------------------------------------------After reading the part, I searched for the mummies that the LDS Church purchased. However, I couldn't find any information about what happened to them.Where did the mummies go?
We ate them. Just kidding. I honestly have no clue what the church would want to do with mummies. I've actually never heard of this before. I found this website, maybe it will help explain things better for BOTH of us. religion.byu.edu/NXT/gateway.dll/... It doesnt' exactly say why they wanted to buy the mummies, it just says what happened to them.
thats an interesting point i will ask my dad or maybe my uncle ( the bishop )
They were sold, ended up in a museum that later burned down. They were lost in the fire.
In the late 1820s an Italian explorer named Antonio Lebolo obtained eleven mummies from an ancient tomb in Egypt. When Lebolo died the mummies were shipped to the US. A man named Michael Chandler came into possession of the mummies in 1833. He opened the boxes the mummies were in and was disappointed not to find jewels or valuable treasures. Attached to some of the bodies of the mummies were linen cloths containing rolls of papyrus, a type of paper made from plants. These papyrus rolls had Egyptian writing on them. Mr. Chandler took the rolls to Pennsylvania, where he tried to find some educated men to tell him about the writings, but even the most educated of these men were only able to understand a little of the writings. Mr. Chandler decided to travel around the country showing people the mummies, and in the summer of 1835 he came to Kirtland, Ohio. There he met with Joseph Smith, who told him that the writings could be interpreted. Later some friends of the Prophet bought four mummies and the rolls of papyrus from Mr. Chandler. There is some evidence, and a general belief that the papyri and the mummies were destroyed in the great fire in Chicago.
