According to the Book of Mormon, that scripture of the Latter Day Saint movement was originally written in reformed Egyptian characters on plates of "ore" by prophets living in the Western Hemisphere from perhaps as early as 2600 BC until as late as AD 421. Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the movement, published the Book of Mormon in 1830 as a translation of these golden plates. Scholarly reference works on languages do not, however, acknowledge the existence of either a "reformed Egyptian" language or "reformed Egyptian" script as it has been described in Mormon belief. No archaeological, linguistic, or other evidence of the use of Egyptian writing in ancient America has been discovered.
Read more about Reformed Egyptian: Reformed Egyptian and The Book of Mormon, The "Anthon Transcript", Mainstream Scholarly View of Reformed Egyptian, Hofmann Forgeries, "Stick of Joseph", Mormon Studies of Reformed Egyptian
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