The Land of Punt, the scientist said ... a Boston University Egyptologist who for nearly 10 years has been excavating the ancient Red Sea harbor of Wadi Gawassis, where royal sailing expeditions ...

In the 15th century B.C., the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled as a king, launched a fabled expedition to a far-away land known as Punt, later recording the journey in a stone bas ...

The Land of Punt was said to be a place of “wonderful things,” and it is recorded in ancient Egyptian history as early as the Fourth Dynasty under the Pharaoh Khufu, with the location ...

The ancient Egyptians knew: suitably lavish goods were available in Punt. In this mysterious, far-flung land you could obtain all the gold, frankincense and myrrh a pharaoh might desire.

Ancient sources point to the fabled land of Punt as the region of origin for the baboons of ancient Egypt. But the location of this mysterious land is unknown and highly debated in the field of ...

One of his quests this year is to locate the Land of Punt - a land that the Ancient Egyptians traded with over many centuries. There are depictions of voyages to the Land of Punt and the most ...

That's the case with the mysterious land of Punt, a kingdom somewhere in Africa that traded with the ancient Egyptians. The two kingdoms were exchanging goods from at least the 26th century B.C ...

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They also found wooden boxes, covered with gypsum, bearing the inscription "Wonders of the land of Punt." For the ancient Egyptians, Punt was a source of prized goods such as incense, ivory ...

The first remains of ancient Egyptian seagoing ships ever ... incense-producing land of Punt. This voyage is depicted in detailed reliefs on Queen Hatshepsut’s temple on the west bank of the ...

An ancient record of the voyage indicates that it was wildly successful. “The loading of the ships very heavily with marvels of the country of Punt; all goodly fragrant woods of God’s-land ...

She famously launched a naval caravan to the ancient land of Punt — what today is called the Horn of Africa — bringing back ships laden with myrrh, frankincense and, notably, incense plants ...