A photo of the Palenque Mayan ruins in modern-day Mexico.

Searching for Zarahemla: A van, the Yucatán, five Latter-day Saints, and the malleable nature of truth

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Emily Fox Kaplan

An account written by the hand of Emily Fox Kaplan. This story was produced in partnership with Pipe Wrench magazine as part of their fall issue. The header photo is of the Palenque Mayan ruins in modern-day Mexico, via factoids/Flickr/Creative Commons.

The logo of Pipe Wrench magazine, a hand holding a pipe wrench

And if all the things which I saw are not written, 

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