If the dissemination took place in either of the ways which seem physically possible, then either the original group and its immediate descendants or the successive bands of colonists, must have stayed long enough here and there along the way to have left remains which should show not degenerate or crude copies of the traits, which their barbarous imitators might be expected to achieve, but full, clear examples of their Egyptian heritage. Somewhere in all this vast area one ought to find a real mastaba tomb, a pylon, a lotus capital, a typical hieroglyphic inscription, a single glass bead, or bit of characteristic jewelry. Yet nowhere has anything whatever of Egyptian type or origin been found.3

2Maudslay, A.R., n/an/an/an/a"Some American Problems," , 42: 12.

3 Dixon, op. cit., 255 (Charles Scribner’s Sons. By permission).