The Egyptians left us mountains of evidence for Punt, none more so than Hatshepsut, whose 3,500-year-old temple at Deir el-Bahri near Thebes contains a veritable book in stone describing Punt.

Punt is believed to lie in northeastern Africa, somewhere in the area of Eritrea, Ethiopia and southern Sudan. Egyptians had made voyages to it for centuries by Hatshepsut’s time.

The Egyptian queen Hatshepsut is a beloved figure in global history because she was a powerful female pharaoh, which was ...

Her name was Hatshepsut, ... Among her greatest achievements was a wildly successful expedition that she led to the land of Punt near the Red Sea, returning with untold riches including gold, ...

After Hatshepsut, the last known expedition to Punt occurred during the 12th century BCE under Ramses II, commonly known as Ramses the Great. A surviving papyrus describes the sailing of ships ...

Hatshepsut's successor tried to demolish all traces of her, but her temple stood the test of time. The once-grand temple offers a look at one of Egypt’s longest reigning female pharaohs.

A new study challenges long-standing beliefs about Pharaoh Hatshepsut’s destroyed statues, suggesting they were ritually deactivated.

Archaeologists unearth pieces, near the Queen Hatshepsut Valley Temple's in Deir El-Bahari on the Nile's west bank in Luxor, Egypt, January 8, 2025. — Reuters Archaeologists have discovered ...

Hatshepsut ruled Ancient Egypt from 1479–1458 B.C. alongside Thutmose III, who was just three years old when he became pharaoh after the death of his father.

Rather, Hatshepsut's statues were broken to "deactivate" them and eliminate their supposed supernatural powers, according to a study published Tuesday (June 24) in the journal Antiquity.