“Ishmael was Buried in the Place Which Was Called Nahom”

"A group of Latter-day Saint researchers recently found evidence linking a site in Yemen, on the south-west corner of the Arabian peninsula, to a name associated with Lehi's journey as recorded in the Book of Mormon. Warren Aston, Lynn Hilton, and Gregory Witt located a stone altar that professional archaeologists dated to at least 700 B.C. This altar contains an inscription confirming 'Nahom' as an actual place that existed in the peninsula before the time of Lehi. The Book of Mormon mentions that 'Ishmael died, and was buried in the place which was called Nahom' (1 Ne. 16:34).

"This is the first archaeological find that supports a Book of Mormon place-name other than Jerusalem or the Red Sea…" (Ensign, Feb. 2001, p. 79)