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LDS Church returns sacred petroglyphs to Native tribe

How the 1,200-year-old artifact ended up on property of a northern Utah chapel remains unclear, but the rock is now back where it belongs.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) For around 80 years, a rock bearing ancient and sacred petroglyphs created by ancestors of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation has sat on the grounds of a Latter-day Saint chapel. In December, it returned home to the northern Utah mountains.