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June 4, 2005
Sailing for Punt
Al Ahram has a good summary article on the continuing excavations at the ancient port of Marsa Gawasis, south of Hurghada in Egypt and the whole issue of trade with Punt. I have written on the excavations a couple of times. There is a summary note on the location of Punt.
The mysterious Land of Punt, at one time identified with the Somali coast and now thought to be located in the southern Sudan or the Eritrean region of Ethiopia, was Ancient Egypt's source of luxury products, the place from where they imported valuable items not available in their own country.
A bas-relief from Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir Al-Bahri depicts an expedition to Punt by 10 Egyptian ships. In order to manage server speed and bandwidth, I have put a picture of a reproduction of a bas-relief of a ship loading the products of Punt from the Al Ahram article below the fold.
I have circled the name Punt in the Egyptian text.
Posted by Duane Smith at June 4, 2005 11:13 AM | Read more on Archaeology |
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