The female pharaoh Hatshepsut told us more about Punt than anyone else in ancient times. But even she is silent on its exact location.

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.

How did this female pharaoh survive being erased from history? Hatshepsut's successor tried to demolish all traces of her, but her temple stood the test of time. The once-grand temple offers a ...

The most detailed depictions of Punt come from a mortuary temple in Deir el-Bahari dedicated to Queen Hatshepsut, the first female ruler to declare themselves pharaoh. Commissioned sometime in ...

The job of ruling over ancient Egypt was largely thought of as a man’s work, yet one woman had the proverbial balls to break with tradition and reign supreme during the 15th century BCE. Her ...

Hatshepsut proceeded to rule for a total of 21 years. In a scene at Deir el Bahri, men carry a myrrh tree to Egyptian ships in Punt, a land still not clearly identified.

The destruction of statues of the ancient Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut may not after all have been part of a campaign of retribution by her nephew and successor, King Thutmose III, archaeologists ...

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

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 ...

A 3300-year-old baboon skull thought to have come from Punt. The Trustees of the British Museum According to Ancient Egyptian legends, the Land of Punt was a mysterious kingdom covered in tropical ...