Intrigued, Fell came to Harvard in 1964 and spent the next eight years exploring the Widener Library’s unique collection of texts on obscure languages and writing systems. In the course of this effort he acquired a working knowledge of several ancient alphabets, including the hieroglyphics of the Egyptians = Punic); the script of the Carthaginians and Ogam, an almost forgotten script used by the pre-Christian Norse (often erroneously referred to as Celts—See Celts). Fell finally proved to his satisfaction that the Polynesian inscriptions were written in the native language, Maori. But its vocabulary was a mixture of Greek and Egyptian that was once spoken in Libya after Alexander the Great conquered Egypt. The alphabet was derived from Carthage. The most remarkable of these Libyan texts was found in a huge cave in New Guinea. There a navigator named Maui left drawings of ancient but sophisticated astronomical and navigational instruments, as well as a depiction of a solar eclipse that enabled Fell, with the help of Harvard astronomers, to identify the year of the drawings as 232 B.C. In 1861, Richard Taylor depicted what he thought were Egyptian hierogly- phics. They were recorded by sailors who were the subject of the book Mutiny on the Bounty in 1790 and took residence in Pitcairn Island of New Zealand with their kidnapped wives. They recorded the hieroglyphics seen here. In Egyptian hieroglypics they have the following meaning: 1. bow; 3. star; 5. moon and three lines sign of plural; 11. if a tail, this could be the ancient designation of lion king; 9, 10, 12, sun; 14. overseer with whip. Not Egyptian signs, 7 was speculated to be the sign of an equator encircled earth important knowledge to the sailors from North Africa who made the voyage; Barry Fell of Harvard came to similar conclusions (see below). 15 is an extinct bird. That it’s feet are backwards is symbolic. Massey [2, page 592 discussion on above hieroglyphics in his book] writes of the Maori being Egyptian.
Barry Fell of Harvard and his decipherment of (I believe these are African and it's my term) lost African languages of the (my paraphrase) Carthage-British Isles-South American-Polynesian corridor: click. Backup: click. (Thanks to Greg N. for the link).
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