 About the claim of Herodotus that the Pharaoh Sesostris campaigned in Europe, and that he left a colony in Colchia, Fehling states that "there is not the slightest bit of history behind the whole story".Many scholars regard the works of Herodotus as being unreliable as historical sources.Fehling writes of "a problem recognized by everybody", namely that much of what Herodotus tells us cannot be taken at face value.