The Fallacy About Ohio Valley Mound Building – Part II

As discussed in the last post, there were mound builders all over the world dating from somewhere around 5000 B.C. onward. Their mound remains are found throughout Europe and numerous other countries. There are mounds from the Black Sea, which contain not only inscriptions but also drawings, jewelry, and other artifacts. The mounds stretch from the Black Sea northward through Russia to the top of the Scandinavian Peninsula, then southward to southern Sweden—where thousands of mounds are found. Similar burial mounds are also found in Britain and western Europe, indicating other migrations in westerly and northwesterly directions.

However, as one archaeologist so vividly pointed out, mound building was not a typical type of burial in the Middle East.

This information is meant to show that the claim of Great Lake Theorists that the mounds found in the Ohio Valley and the Mississippi Valley were Nephite constructions, is not true. These world-wide mounds were burial mounds and, as pointed out in the diagram in the last post, did not contain any construction. In fact, no remains anywhere in the United States rivals the construction Nephi taught his people as found in 2 Nephi 5:15-16.

In addition to the thousands of mounds found throughout Britain, here are just a few of the thousands of ancient world-wide mounds found in far-flung countries.

Kernave Lithuania
The multi-chambered Dilmun Burial Mounds, Bahrain
Mounds in Knowth, Ashbourne, Ireland
Ostrusha Mound near Kazanlak, Bulgaria
Sarmatian Kurgan 400 BC, Fillipovka, Southern Urals, Belarussia

(See more on the Ohio Valley mounds in the next post: The Fallacy About Ohio Valley Mound Building – Part III)