QUESTION #16 -- EARLY MORMON HISTORY QUIZ

Correct. Joseph Smith purchased the Egyptian artifacts in 1835.

History of the Church, vol. 2, pg. 236 (Sunday, July 5, 1835) states that "...some of the Saints at Kirtland purchased the mummies and papyrus..."

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