The Book of Abraham was a product of Joseph Smith’s imagination, lacking any factual foundation. Even prominent Mormon historian B. H. Roberts acknowledged this scholarly challenge:

“There were no Egyptian scholars in the church of the Latter-day Saints who could make an effective answer to the conclusions of the eight scholars who in various ways pronounced against the correctness of Joseph Smith’s translation …”

A Comprehensive History of the Church – Volume 2 (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret News Press, 6 April 1930), 139.