Egypt
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- A Step Nearer To Finding The Land Of Punt?
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) Throughout their history the ancient Egyptians recorded making voyages to a place called the 'Land of Punt'. To the Egyptians it was a far-off source of exotic animals and valuable goods. From there they brought back...
- Building An Egyptian Boat
Tallahassee.com A filmmaker is re-creating a treasure-gathering voyage of Egypt's greatest female pharaoh, and a Florida State archaeology professor is designing the boat. FSU's Cheryl Ward spent last week in Egypt as boat-builders laid the keel...
- Ancient Ship Remains At Red Sea Port
http://tinyurl.com/bae3l (Monsters and Critics)"The remains of a ship used by ancient Egyptians for commercial trips to the fabled land of Punt have been discovered in five caves engraved in a port on the Red Sea. The find, in the Marsa Gawasees area...
- Off To The Land Of Punt
Two ancient baboon mummies will be examined to see if samples from their hair will reveal the location in Africa from which they were collected. There is hope that the results will point to the ancient land of Punt where Hatshepsut and other kings of...
- The Return To Thebes Ca. 1465 Bce
Look to your feet ye people! Behold the load is very heavy! Prosperity be with us for the sake of the myrrh tree in the midst of gods land for the house of Amen, there is a place it shall be made to grow for Maatkare in his temple according to his command....
Egypt
More re location the land of Punt
SF Gate
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Thousands of years ago, there once stood a place called Punt, a land of gold and ebony, and ivory, frankincense and myrrh.
To the pharaohs who built their palaces along the Nile, the Land of Punt was the source of great treasure. Among the most prized were Punt's leopards and baboons, which they viewed as sacred and took as royal pets.
The pharaohs sent great expeditions to Punt; they welcomed delegations of Puntites to their palaces, and their scribes recorded their gifts and commercial products in detail.
But not one of the Egyptian scribes who wrote about the strange land - Ta netjer, or God's Land, as it was sometimes called - ever revealed exactly where it lay.
The riddle was left to modern-day scholars to solve.
Now researchers armed with the sophisticated tools of modern physics have tackled the problem and declared that while they still can't tell exactly where Punt was, they do know where it wasn't.
- A Step Nearer To Finding The Land Of Punt?
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) Throughout their history the ancient Egyptians recorded making voyages to a place called the 'Land of Punt'. To the Egyptians it was a far-off source of exotic animals and valuable goods. From there they brought back...
- Building An Egyptian Boat
Tallahassee.com A filmmaker is re-creating a treasure-gathering voyage of Egypt's greatest female pharaoh, and a Florida State archaeology professor is designing the boat. FSU's Cheryl Ward spent last week in Egypt as boat-builders laid the keel...
- Ancient Ship Remains At Red Sea Port
http://tinyurl.com/bae3l (Monsters and Critics)"The remains of a ship used by ancient Egyptians for commercial trips to the fabled land of Punt have been discovered in five caves engraved in a port on the Red Sea. The find, in the Marsa Gawasees area...
- Off To The Land Of Punt
Two ancient baboon mummies will be examined to see if samples from their hair will reveal the location in Africa from which they were collected. There is hope that the results will point to the ancient land of Punt where Hatshepsut and other kings of...
- The Return To Thebes Ca. 1465 Bce
Look to your feet ye people! Behold the load is very heavy! Prosperity be with us for the sake of the myrrh tree in the midst of gods land for the house of Amen, there is a place it shall be made to grow for Maatkare in his temple according to his command....