Egyptians in Acadia

The Micmac are an Algonquian tribe living in that part of eastern Canada called Acadia. In contrast to most tribes of North American Indians, the Micmac possess their own written language…supposedly invented and taught to them by Pierre Maillard, a French priest…The strange part about the Micmac writing is that its signs are often very similar to Egyptian hieroglyphs having the same meanings… the priest actually had died 61 years before Champollion first published his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics. It is unreasonable, therefore, to believe that he could have invented Micmac writing with its Egyptian affinities. Either the affinities are the product of chance or Precolumbian contacts occurred between the Micmac and Egyptian voyagers…