The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint
movement. It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr. as The Book
of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the
Plates of Nephi. According to Smith, the book was originally written in
otherwise unknown characters referred to as "reformed Egyptian" on golden plates
that he discovered in 1823 and then translated. The plates, Smith said, had been
buried in a hill near his home in Manchester, New York, where he found them by
the guidance of an angel, a resurrected ancient American prophet-historian named
Moroni.
— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
