After all, America was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Yet there is evidence to suggest that there was transatlantic contact thousands of years before Columbus. In Paris in 1976, the mummy of Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses II was found to contain tobacco. In 1992, the German toxicologist Svetlana Balabanova examined mummies in the Munich Museum. Extensive evidence was found of high amounts of cocaine having been absorbed into the bodies.
Cocaine is the active ingredient of the coca plant, native only to the Americas.
Thus the possibility stands that coca leaves were being imported to Ancient Egypt via transoceanic contact with the Americas. They display Negroid features, suggesting the presence of black Africans in the American continent at this time. Other statues show Semitic features, suggesting contact with Mediterranean seafarers. AND the evidence mounts. It seems certain, concludes Collins, that Plato's Atlantis was on the western Atlantic seaboard, somewhere in the Caribbean.