All roads lead to Rome....kinda fits into this discussion.
If you dig around on Egyptian episodes....about a decade ago....someone wanted to figure what the magical ingredients were for doing the four-star mummy deals. So, they did a chemical analysis of some material given to them from a curator....from a collection.
They came back and noted there’s this odd preservative in the mix...tobacco. There’s only one place that you get tobacco from, and it’s not till the 1500s that it gets brought out of the New World to Africa and Europe. Well....that means that the Egyptians were onto some travel and trade route three thousand years ago....to the New World. That got the Egyptians all upset and they quickly played down this bogus examination....it doesn’t fit their story line.
Tobacco was known in South American native cultures as well as North American Indian tribes.
It is quite possible that the Egyptians had colonies of exiles in South America that traded with the home country. The distance across the Atlantic from the coasts of South America to Africa is relatively short.....................
3,109 km / 1932 Miles = Distance from Recife, Brazil to Monrovia, Liberia.................