Recently, the Mormon Church published the photo of the seer stone, with which, in 1823, Joseph Smith
allegedly translated the golden plates that an angel told him about. Mr. Smith claimed that he used one of the two stones that the angel gave him on the occasion, to translate the book of Mormon from some gibberish language into English.
While this tale is hard to believe, it's interesting to compare the mineral artifact with today's Google Translate app. Hopefully, the interactive software would instantly tell us to take a hike if we asked it to translate a fishy story from some “reformed Egyptian” tongue!
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