Original sentence: 27, 1967, the Deseret News  (owned by the Mormon Church) acknowledged the rediscovery of the papyri.On Nov.On the back of the papyri were drawings of a temple and maps of the Kirtland, Ohio area, so it is believed that these are the original documents from which Joseph Smith translated the book of Abraham.Portions of papyri were found in 1966 in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.Thus it seems that Kolob is a product of either the imagination of Joseph Smith (per his skeptics) or his inspiration (per his apologists), but not of the literal Egyptian text.Translations by modern Egyptologists of the papyri fragments show them to be common Egyptian funerary texts written thousands of years later than Joseph Smith claimed and bearing little resemblance to what is found in the Pearl of Great Price
Edited sentence: 27, 1967, acknowledged the rediscovery of the papyri.On the back of the papyri were drawings of a temple and maps of the Kirtland, Ohio area.Portions of the actual papyri were found in 1966 in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.The Mormon Church owned Deseret News, on Nov.There was no doubt that these were the original documents from which Joseph Smith translated the book of Abraham.They were quickly translated by actual egyptologists and shown to be common Egyptian funerary texts written thousands of years later than Joseph Smith claimed and bearing no resemblance to his "translation" that the Mormons include in the Pearl of Great Price.Thus, Kolob was conclusively demonstrated to be the product of Joseph Smith's imagination