“This is an oblique acknowledgment that the majority of their writing was on perishable materials. Note that when those who believed the preaching of Alma were being persecuted by the people of the city of Ammonihah, ‘they also brought forth their records which contained the holy scriptures, and cast them into the fire also, that they might be burned and destroyed by fire’ (Alma 14:8). Paper seems the obvious substance. … Lehi and Nephi would surely have been fully familiar with Egyptian paper made from papyrus … considering that they carried only a minimum of materials beyond their subsistence necessities” (Sorenson, “Book of Mormon as a Mesoamerican Record,” 417–18).