RH remembers seeing mummies and papyri.
"Reminiscences of the Church in Nauvoo," Millennial Star 55, no. 36 (September 4, 1893): 585
"Oh, here is the Pearl of Great Price," said Brother Horne, picking up that book. "I've seen these records with my own eyes," referring to the Book of Abraham, "and handled them with these hands. Mother Lucy (Joseph's mother) showed them to me. You know Joseph had purchased four mummies. They were one of the Egyptian Pharaohs, his wife, sister and daughter. I took hold of the breastbone of one of them. The records which I saw were some kind of parchment or papyrus, and it contained writing in red and black. Mother Lucy told me that one was the writings of Abraham and the other the writings of Joseph, who was sold in Egypt.