[Destro]

I mean colony in its original form, the transfer of whole populations into a new areas, and not the 18th and 19th century idea of a colony in which a few outsiders rule another people in let us say the manner of the British in India.

The fact that Egypt had trading relations with people in Europe and beyond is not in doubt. It is also a fact that Egyptian "colonies" were those that were directly next to Egypt proper and easily reached by land. What Egyptian population transfers occurred into Europe to be properly called a colony in the tradition of Greek colonies in let us say Magna Grecia? Where are the Egyptian versions of Naucratis in Europe?

[Richard Poe]

<< I mean colony in its original form, the transfer of whole populations into a new areas, and not the 18th and 19th century idea of a colony in which a few outsiders rule another people in let us say the manner of the British in India... >>

Dear Mr. Destro:

I never claimed that there were massive population transfers from Egypt to Greece -- at least not during the historical period. You would know that, if you had read my book.

Then again, if Naukratis is your idea of a "population transfer," perhaps I had better ask for further clarification of just what you mean by this phrase. Naukratis was a trading colony, a small patch of land granted to Greek residents by the philhellenic Pharaoh Ahmose II.

I don't know what its population was, but surely there were a lot more British living in the Raj than Greeks living in Naukratis.

As for your challenge to name specific Egyptian colonies that may have existed in Bronze Age Greece -- well, that was the whole point of my book. Didn't you say you read it?