ortraits found in Olmec ruins in Mexico bear decidedlyAfrican features, includingblack skin, rounded faces, and broad noses, versus the angular faces of theAmericannatives. Moreover, there are paintings and statues bearing Semiticcharacteristics,including hooked noses, goatees, and sharp facial features. Some aredepicted as carryingwalking staffs (Ra 260). A good deal of 'circumstantial' evidence also points toEgypt-Inca contact. Thisincludes the fact that both cultures demonstrate traditions ofintermarriage to preserveroyal blood lines, and hieroglyphic writings. Both societies also embalmedtheir dead inthe same way, and performed cranial surgery (Geographic 47). One notedanthropologistwith the University of California documented sixty features, all of anunusual nature,unique to only the Egyptian and Inca empires (Ra 24). These include, inaddition to theaforementioned ceremonies, paper-making with reeds, the use of adobebricks, falsebeards for religious leaders, and circumcision of males. Perhaps the mostbizarre traitshared by both civilizations is the practice of, "expeditions in search ofspecial mollusks,highly valuable for their red shells or for the red dye extracted from thesnail" (Ra87-88). Nonetheless, in order to further theories of Egyptian-Incacontact scientists mustestablish a means whereby such contact could have occurred. Thefeasibility of Egyptianvoyages to South America has been proved by Thor Heyerdahl. In 1970, heand ahodgepodge team of various nationalities built a large reed raft in Egypt,using Egyptiandesigns and Peruvian Indians to provide technical advice. They hauled theraft on a sledgeacross the continent, and sailed to a landfall in Barbados, in theCaribbean. The only toolsused in constructing this raft were those that ancient Egyptians would havehad, and theexpedition was a complete success, proving that with their technology,ancient Egyptianscould certainly have tra...
