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What a cool cover! And surprisingly quick coverage of a difficult subject. If I recall correctly, the papyri were found in 1967, so putting it on the cover of a church publication in Jan. 1968 is downright speedy. I wonder how the articles addressed translation.
For anyone interested in reading, the issue can be found at
https://archive.org/details/improvementera7101unse/page/n0
The article has a surprisingly good history. Most of what it said is summed up at the close of the article: the papyri fragments returned to the church “are a remarkably powerful and tangible testimony to the truthfulness of the Prophet’s clear and simply told story that he had in his hands some original papyri documents, some of which he used in producing the Book of Abraham.” I’ve never heard anyone doubting that the Prophet actually had the papyri. Not much is said there about the actual issue of translation.
The upper photo on the cover is called the Colossi of Memnonon. The statues are located at Thebes, which is where the mummies with the Abraham Papyri were found.