1
Ne 16:34 Ishmael¡¦was buried in the place which was
called Nahom
¡°A
group of Latter-day Saint researchers recently found evidence linking a site in
Yemen, on the south-west corner of the Arabian peninsula, to a name associated
with Lehi¡¯s journey as recorded in the Book of Mormon. Warren Aston, Lynn
Hilton, and Gregory Witt located a stone altar that professional archaeologists
dated to at least 700 B.C. This altar contains an inscription confirming
¡®Nahom¡¯ as an actual place that existed in the peninsula before the time of
Lehi. The Book of Mormon mentions that ¡®Ishmael
died, and was buried in the place which was called Nahom¡¯ (1 Ne. 16:34).
¡°This
is the first archaeological find that supports a Book of Mormon place-name
other than Jerusalem or the Red Sea¡¦¡± (Ensign, Feb. 2001, p. 79)