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  Ancient Evidence for the Restoration  

Lights & Perfections

Watch the film. Then dig into the evidence behind it.

In Hebrew, the high priest’s Urim and Thummim — the seer’s instrument of revelation — translates literally as “Lights and Perfections.” The same instrument Joseph Smith used to translate the Book of Mormon.

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Inside the San Diego Temple

The gleaming landmark on Interstate 5 — announced 1984, dedicated 1993, rededicated this August. A scrolling history with period news, the architecture, and the symbol hidden in its walls more than 10,000 times.

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Series I

The Hidden Words

Names and language no frontier farm boy could have known.
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Onomastics

Alma — A Vindicated Name

Mocked for a century as a woman’s name — then unearthed on a Bar Kokhba deed in a Judean cave.

▸ 1,442 views
Linguistics

The Hidden Word: Where Did Deseret Come From?

Joseph Smith’s coined word for “honeybee” surfaces, intact, in ancient Egyptian.

▸ 290 views
Manuscripts

The Name in the Cave: Mahijah

A name dictated in 1829, matched in the Book of Giants — a Dead Sea Scroll found in 1948.

▸ 379 views
Text & Symbol

The Asherah Syntax

Nephi’s tree-of-life vision, carrying the grammar and symbolism of ancient Israel.

▸ 532 views
Stylometry

Wordprints: Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon?

Statistical fingerprints count the authors hiding inside the text.

▸ 1,574 views
Literary Structure

Chiasmus: The Hidden Architecture

An inverted poetic structure nobody on the 1829 frontier knew to look for.

▸ 170 views
Tradition

The Two Remnants of Joseph’s Coat

An obscure coat tradition, preserved a world away from upstate New York.

▸ 385 views
Series II

Lehi’s Journey

A map across Arabia, written before the map existed.
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Archaeology

Anatomy of an Ancient Ark

The Jaredite barges and the sealed flood-vessels of the ancient Near East.

▸ 4,547 views · a top film
Geography

Nahom: Three Altars in the Desert

A Book of Mormon place-name, carved on an altar in Yemen centuries before Lehi.

▸ 2,024 views
Geography

The Garden in the Desert

An “impossible” route across Arabia to a green coast — that turns out to be real.

▸ 296 views
Nephite World

Alma 11 — The Optimal Coin System

A Nephite system of weights and measures, almost mathematically perfect.

▸ 479 views
Series III

The Quiet Apostasy

What the early church lost — and what was restored.
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Early Christianity

Before Nicaea: The God the Apostles Knew

What Christians believed about God before the fourth-century creeds redrew it.

▸ 1,855 views
Ordinances

Baptism Before Christ

Ritual immersion for a coming Messiah — centuries before the New Testament.

▸ 411 views
Apologetics · Sources

Are Mormons Christian?

The historical case, traced through the earliest Christian record.

▸ 304 views
History · Sources

The Hurlbut Affidavits — A Rebuttal

The 1830s affidavits gathered against Joseph Smith, re-examined.

▸ 479 views
Series IV

By the Numbers

What the data says about who believes — and who stays.
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The Research Lab

The evidence behind every episode

Every film is drawn from a working corpus of sourced findings — the published scholarship of Hugh Nibley and the FARMS / Maxwell Institute scholars, indexed claim by claim. Names, places, doctrines, and artifacts, each traced from the 1820s back to where the ancient world independently attests it.

8,500+
sourced findings
30+
volumes indexed
14
research digests

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