Gold plate news keeps popping up

Sez Ogrady We as Mormons know, because we have sought to know through the Holy Ghost, that Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon from gold or brass plates. Some plates that have been found have been in mesoamerica and in the Middle East. The difference witht heo nes Joseph Smith translated from was that the plates he was translating were in the hands of gone and have gone back to those hands. it was 1823 when was told by an angel that he would translate from brass plates

Ancient gold plates in Mesoamerica
Published: Saturday, April 30, 2011 3:30 a.m. MDT By Daniel Johnson, For Mormon Times

Archaeologists have know for about a century that gold plates with carved writing have been found in Mesoamerica, yet it is still not common knowledge outside their discipline.
It all began with Edward Herbert Thompson.
When he was excavating at Chichén Itzá near the turn of the 20th century, he was enthralled with the sacrificial cenote. Unlike other archaeologists, he believed the Spanish Priest Diego de Landa’s account of offerings at this location. Determined to find them, he began to dredge it in 1904, donning a diving suit to search the muddy bottom himself (Carolyn Meyer and Charles Gallenkamp, “The Mystery of the Ancient Maya,” New York, Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1995, pp. 38-39).

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Detail of a section of a gold plate with Mayan hieroglyphs, which was recovered from the Maya site of ChichÉn ItzÁ, can be seen in the Peabody Museum's archives. His tireless efforts eventually brought great discoveries to light. What he did not tell Mexican authorities was that for two decades he had been emptying the cenote of its priceless treasures and sending them back to the Peabody Museum at Harvard. When this became known in 1926, the Mexican government confiscated his estate and he returned home.
Because of Thompson, the Peabody has perhaps the best collection of Mesoamerican artifacts outside of the region. However, because of space and financial issues, most of these objects are not on display but rather archived in the museum’s immense storage facilities.
Thompson found carved jade, tools, gold ornaments, copper axes, other obscure metal items and human remains. Many people know about some of these artifacts, but few know about the gold plates he found. Many of them are decorated with images of warfare and sacrifice, showing bearded Toltecs (Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube, “Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens,” London, Thames & Hudson, 2000, p. 229).
Some have Mayan hieroglyphics. The gold came from as far away as Panama, and it is possible that it was brought to Chichen as blank plates to be engraved there (Lynn V. Foster, “Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World,” New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 322). They date to the ninth century A.D. (Linda Schele and Peter Matthews, “The Code of Kings,” New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998, p. 359).
These gold plates are quite remarkable. The detail is astounding, with intricate designs. Upon close inspection, it appears that very precise metal tools would be necessary to do such work. The gold itself is very thin, but quite strong and stiff.