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Izapa Stela 5

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The "Three of Life" is a rock that weighs around one-and-a-half tons. Its name is Izapa Stela 5 (for Stelae, a kind of ceremonial rock) is a wide stone, erected for a funeral or a commemorative purpose, decorated with the names and titles of the deceased or living, carved in relief. The stone, is currently owned by The Smithsonian Institution and was discovered in the city of Izapa, in 1941, by archaeologist Matthew W. Stirling.

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Izapa Stela 5 is one of a number of large, carved stelae found in the ancient Mesoamerican site of Izapa, in the Soconusco region of Chiapas, Mexico, along the present-day Guatemalan border. These stelae date from roughly 300 BC to 50 or 100 Ad, although some argue for dates as late as 250 AD.

Also known as the "Tree of Life" stone, the complex religious imagery of Izapa Stela 5 has led to different theories and speculations concerning its subject matter, particularly those involving Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact. Though discovered and documented first in the early 1940s, the stone is particularly noteworthy because of the controversy created by the proposition by Professor M. Wells Jakeman in 1953 that the stone was a record of the Book of Mormon tree of life vision.
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While both Latter Day Saints and Non-LDS scholars debate the interpretation of the carving, it's hard to ignore the striking similarity it has to Lehi's dream of the "Tree of Life" found in 1 Nephi chapter 8. The tree of life, the people eating fruit, and other resemblances to the account of Lehi's dream, coupled with the location it was found, and it being dated dead on to the Book of Mormon timetable, makes this an intriguing evidence of Book of Mormon authenticity.
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