Edited sentence: At the time, Egyptian hieroglypics could not be translated, so there was no way to counter the alleged translation.Since that time, the discovery of the Rosetta Stone permited deciphering of hieroglyphics, and the translation promulgated by Joseph Smith Jr.The actual papri purchased by Joseph Smith Jr.and asserted to contain the Book of Abraham was thought to have been lost in a fire in Chicago.and the LDS church has been shown to be an unusually inartful fraud