On January 22 this year, BMC’s blog published “ What did the River of Filthy Water and the River of Laman look like? ” highlighting a video sequence recently filmed at Wadi Tayyib al Ism in north-west Saudi Arabia, the dramatic canyon that seems to be the place Nephi described in 1 Nephi 2:6–10. The video showed a wide, substantial, flood rushing down the wadi with sufficient force to uproot...

Two months ago, in November 2019, a colleague and I visited the best (actually only credible ) candidate for the River of Laman and the Valley of Lemuel in Saudi Arabia. We were astounded to find that the small year-round stream flowing down wadi Tayyib al Ism had extended several hundreds of yards beyond its usual limit, this time reaching to within about 40 yards of the Red Sea coast...