“Underscoring her claim, one of the reliefs decorating Hatshepsut ... was a key foreign relations triumph during Hatshepsut’s reign. Punt is believed to lie in northeastern Africa, somewhere ...

Around the second courtyard are famous reliefs showing a trading expedition that Hatshepsut sent to the Land of Punt, believed to be located on the Horn of Africa. Myrrh trees were brought back ...

In the 15th century B.C., the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut ... expedition to a far-away land known as Punt, later recording the journey in a stone bas-relief. In this interactive, use a detailed ...

Reliefs in the porticoes record ... men carry a myrrh tree to Egyptian ships in Punt, a land still not clearly identified. Hatshepsut sent a trading mission down the Red Sea to procure luxuries ...

The reliefs cover the walls of a chapel within the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut—a female pharaoh who reigned from around 1473-1458 BC—and show a procession of 200 offering bearers ...

The chief sculptor was hard at work on a wall relief at the Temple of Hatshepsut, a religious site on the west bank of the Nile dedicated to the woman pharaoh who ruled Egypt from 1473 to 1458 B.C ...

Quartzite tablet (left) with Hatshepsut cartouche; temple blocks (center and right) with bas-reliefs Extensive remnants of one of the temples commissioned by the female pharaoh Hatshepsut (reigned ca.

Show more Over 3,000 years ago legend has it that Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt's first female pharaoh, sent a fleet of ships to the wonderful, distant land of Punt. A bas-relief in the temple where she ...

"Hatshepsut certainly knows how to make an entrance,” he quips. According to a press release the front side of the relief depicts ... almost mythic expedition to Punt, the “Land of the Gods ...