[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?

[Destro]

Professor, it has been awhile. If you can loan me a copy I would be happy to point out exact details on points of yours that I found to be the stretching of the historical evidence.