Quote Originally Posted by Catiline View Post
There's pretty much nothing but conjecture and wishful thinking to suggest pre-Columbian contact between the Egyptians and the Americas. Given how loudly they trumpeted their other efforts at exploration, it seems unlikely that contact across the Atlantic wouldn't have been recorded. There's no evidence of the other goods you'd expect to be traded going either way.

There are some nice parallels in things like the pyramids, but it's most likely convergent evolution - there are only so many ways to build monumental structures like those with the level of technology available.
Even then they only appear similar on the surface; Mayan pyramids and hieroglyphic writing are really different in form and function from Egyptian pyramids and writing.