Critics often demand why no Book of Mormon city names have been found in inscriptions from pre-Columbian America. A better question might be: Can we find many city names in those inscriptions at all? And

Maya emblem glyphs and Book of Mormon place names

William Hamblin and Daniel Peterson, writing for the Deseret News, Friday, Aug. 5, 2016;

Ffty emblem glyphs are our only source of place names (toponyms) for Book of Mormon times. This compares with thousands of toponyms found in ancient Near Eastern sources.

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