Echos of the Fall at Philae in Egypt?

Taylor, Richard, Te Ika a Maui or New Zealand and its Inhabitants, 2nd ed., London: William Macintosh, 1870, p. 61.

The Egyptian hieroglyphic given of Adam and Eve recently found in the temple of Philæ, represents most clearly our first parents, with the serpent at the base of the tree looking up to Eve. Adam seems to be returning from tilling the garden, with some tool or implement of husbandry in his hand; the fi rst work given him to do when placed in Paradise, was to dress it, and to keep it. This hieroglyphic is therefore singularly faithful, and establishes the fact that the Egyptians were early acquainted with the scriptural narrative, and it is not improbable also with its general outlines, before the time when Moses was inspired to write it, and that it forms a portion of the original tradition handed down to them from the patriarchal times.

Taylor, Richard, Te Ika a Maui or New Zealand and its Inhabitants, 2nd ed., London: William Macintosh, 1870, p. 662.