Posted by rpcman on July 08, 1999 at 22:55:27:
In Reply to: so what is the consensus on the transcript posted by ludwig on July 08, 1999 at 19:25:59:
Here are some quotes from Quest for the Gold Plates. Most are off of page 52 and the footnotes thereon:
"I see no resemblance between the characters of which you sent me a photograph [the Anthon Transcript] and any form of Egyptian writing." -- Sir Alan H. Gardiner of OxfordDeanne G. Matheny, who formerly taught anthropology at BYU, summarized the current situation by saying that 'no one has convincingly demonstrated a link between any of them [the writing systems of Mesoamerica] and any Near Eastern derived system or to anything resembling the Anthon Transcript'.
Asael C. Lambert, former dean of the graduate school of BYU, compared the Anthon characters with astrological signs and magical talismans.
"This is not Egyptian writing, as known to the Egyptologist. It obviously is not hieroglyphic, nor the 'cursive hieroglyphic' as used in the Book of the Dead... [the Anthon Transcript] cannot be recognized or read as any form of ancient Egyptian from the beginning of writing in Egypt about 3000 BC to the terminal stage of Coptic about 1000 AD." -- John A. Wilson, Egyptologist