Darius Plates
Location: Found at Audience Hall (Apadana) in Persepolis (Iran)
Description: Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from plates that had been held in a stone box at Hill Cumorah. Like the Book of Mormon plates, the Darius plates are another example of ancient writing on plates of precious metal deposited within a stone box. Regarding the Darius Plates, the book Ancient Writing on Metal Plates states that they were “trilingual, in duplicate on two gold and two silver plates; ten lines Old Persian, seven lines Elamite, and eight lines Akkadian sealed in a stone box. Apparently the author thought the message was important and needed to be preserved because the same message was found at Hamadan in one gold and one silver plate… Discovered in 1938”. [33]
