The River Laman was Pharao Necho's Nile-Red Sea channel

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The River Laman was Farao Pharaoh Necho's Nile-Red Sea channel




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> Among the most ridiculed parts of the Book of Mormon is the following account
> about the river Laman that emptied into the red sea, as there is not such a river.
> 1 Nephi 1: 4-10
> (quote) 4 And it came to pass that he departed into the wilderness.
> And he left his house, and the land of his inheritance, and his
> gold, and his silver, and his precious things, and took nothing
> with him, save it were his family, and provisions, and tents, and
> departed into the wilderness.
> 5 And he came down by the borders near the shore of the Red Sea; and he
> traveled in the wilderness in the borders which are nearer the Red
> Sea; and he did travel in the wilderness with his family, which
> consisted of my mother, Sariah, and my elder brothers, who were
> Laman, Lemuel, and Sam.
> 6 And it came to pass that when he had traveled three days in the
> wilderness, he pitched his tent in a valley by the side of a river
> of water.
> 7 And it came to pass that he built an altar of stones, and made an
> offering unto the Lord, and gave thanks unto the Lord our God.
> 8 And it came to pass that he called the name of the river, Laman,
> and it emptied into the Red Sea; and the valley was in the borders
> near the mouth thereof.
> 9 And when my father saw that the waters of the river emptied into
> the fountain of the Red Sea, he spake unto Laman, saying: O that
> thou mightest be like unto this river, continually running into the
> fountain of all righteousness!
> 10 And he also spake unto Lemuel: O that thou mightest be like unto
> this valley, firm and steadfast, and immovable in keeping the
> commandments of the Lord!
> (unquote)


Nevertheless the Brigham Young University scholars have drawn up a
brilliant solution with Lehi traveling to the Persian Gulf instead of
the Gulf of Suez (both branches of the Red Sea) and located there a
wadi (an Arab river valley) streaming into the gulf.

http://www.nephiproject.com/serv01.htm


This explanation although brilliant is but not needed.
as There is a one and only big river in that area, the Nile, but that
is streaming into the Mediterrean Sea.


But At the time of Lehi's travel was (around 600 BC) and at that time
there was a far sighted ruler at in Egypt: Pharaoh Necho II,
who dug a channel from the Nile to the Red Sea, passing the Bitter
Lakes.
These selfsame Bitter Lakes who were called the fountains of the Red
Sea at that time (1Ne1:9 running into the fountains of ..)


(from Wikipedia: Necho II)
At some point, he (The Pharaoh) initiated the ambitious project of
cutting a canal from the Pelusiac branch of the Nile to the Gulf of
Suez, the earliest precursor of the Suez Canal.


Some 12,000 workers dug in the Wadi Tumilat to make the waterway,
who
were housed at Per-Temu.Tjeku (Tell el-Maskhuta), about 15 km west of
Ismailia.


This waterway was intended to facilitate trade between the
Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, and allow the Egyptian navy
he
created to operate along both the Mediterranean and Red Sea coasts.
(Herodotus 2.158; Pliny N.H. 6.165ff; Diodorus Siculus 3.43.)


Herodotus however, declares that Necho discontinued work on this
canal
after 120,000 Egyptians had perished during the construction effort.
Herodotus states that the canal was completed by the Persian, Darius
the Great, a century later
(unquote)


But The Book of Mormon however shows us here that it was working,
emptying flowing Nile water into the Red Sea. day by day
This set me to thinking of the great historical value that the source
of the BoM would be if it were made available.


The fact that Lehi (historical Jeremia) did not call the River Nile
by
its name, known by Jeremia, is that it was not the River Nile itself
and could have another name Laman. The texts do not state that he
used
that name after his eldest son.


> There is another plausible explanation: , maybe it was the border
with the black kingdom in the Sudan near the Nile MAEROË, which had
ties with Hindu Harrapan and had a northern province, maybe island,
called New Laman, but fought with Necho (the Vedic wars).


(quote)
Second Harappan Empire


> ... Necho hesitant doesn't signs the charter. ... After an year on
> the seas, The Hebrews land on the island dubbed ''New Laman.''
> 586-579: The Egyptian/Vedic war. ...


unquote)

When I reported my findings to the BYU they gave me the surprising
answer, that their own scholar Robert Smith had suggested that idea,
already and that it was still considered.


So for me the most logical identification of the river Laman is that
it was the Nile channel to the Red Sea of Pharaoh Necho


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