It's all been part of the Roman Empire anyway!
Wait did Egypt ever have anything to do with it?
I will figure out the thread pitch and pm you before heading that way one day. I need to drop my buck mark off to be threaded and the sight moved back anyway.
I would do the work myself, except I don't have the tools, the skills to use the tools, or the cash to but the tools that I don't have the skills to use.
Do what I do and just make it up. Well, you have to have the tools before you can invent the skills.