“there is no archaeological support for the Book of Mormon. According to Mormon scriptures, the Nephite and Lamanite nations had huge populations that lived in large, fortified cities. They waged large-scale wars with each other for hundreds of years, culminating in a conflict in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed in AD 385, near Hill Cumorah in present-day New York State. . . . But there is no [archaeological] evidence that it occurred.”
