The papyrus that Joseph Smith, Jr. translated into the Book of Abraham, a canonized LDS scripture, was actually just a common Egyptian funerary text known as The Books of Breathing. Similar artifacts have been found and accurately translated by scholars. Dr. W.M. Flinders Petrie states:

“To any one with knowledge of the large class of [Egyptian] funeral documents to which these belong, the attempts to guess a meaning are too absurd to be noticed. It may be safely said that there is not one single word that is true in these [i.e., Smith’s] explanations.”

Dr. W.M. Flinders Petrie, quoted in Rt. Rev. F.S. Spalding, Joseph Smith, Jr., As a Translator (Salt Lake City, UT: The Arrow Press, 1912), 24.