Egyptians in the New World?

[M. Demetrius]

The story is more likely, though, when your Egyptians arrive over there by accident, more dead than alive, than when they set out on purpose

I have to agree with that concept. To set out on purpose, you would have to have purpose, and some kind of knowledge of what your were expecting to find. The story would need a reason better than "Let's see what's out there, engage!" to set sail on a voyage of unknown length (as far as they knew, the sea simply went on forever...) and some expectation of being able to get home with some kind of treasure, technology, or whatever.

Now a storm that blew them out of sight of land and into the deep blue, perhaps like one of the hurricane types that start in West Africa and end up in Brazil or Cuba, now that makes sense. If it became a hurricane, of course, those boats just wouldn't have held up and they would never have made it across alive. A lesser tropical depression would be plausible. Rainwater is drinkable, but it would get pretty old to be inside a storm for the entire crossing.

[silly] And in Brazil, there is the legend of the Bay of Jugs...the amphorae that the legend-tellers say are scattered on the bottom of the bay, but covered up by the Brazilian government for who knows what real reason...perhaps the Roman galley was following a papyrus scroll from an Egyptian library, or

wait for it


The Ancient Aliens obviously gave them a route map and a navigation system to find their way across, along with seawater distillation equipment so they could have water on the weeks or months-long voyage. There. All problems solved. 8) :lol: [/silly]

It could make a story, please ignore the silly comments above.