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  • Egyptians had made expeditions down the Red Sea to a land which they sometimes called Punt, and sometimes "The Divine Land."

    Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt James Baikie 1898

  • After this the tribute of Punt is formally transferred to the treasury of the temple; the Ana gum (specified in the inscription as "green Ana") is measured and registered by the temple servants; while the bags of gold-dust, the bricks of electrum, the ingots of pure gold, and the ivory tusks, are, by a conventional fiction, being weighed in the presence of Horus by no less a sacred scribe than Thoth himself.

    Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

  • This fine head of a chief of Punt is photographed from a cast taken by Mr.W. M.F. Petrie from the group of foreign tributaries sculptured on the Pylon of Horemheb, at Karnak.

    Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

  • Dr. Punt is an obnoxious, arrogant troll who needs to aploogize to Kay in Maine.

    Think Progress » Confused Palin: It is ‘mistaken’ to call GOP the ‘Party of No,’ but GOP is right to be ‘Party of No’ to Obama. 2010

  • Reliefs from her prosperous reign show ships loaded with ebony and myrrh trees, as well as apes and panther skins taken from a mysterious land called Punt (its identity is still disputed).

    Kew Gardens: 'Plants are not just beautiful. They help us to survive' 2010

  • Shortly thereafter Tananda were riding through the city outside the walls, which was known as Punt, when Agara appeared and stirred up the people against her.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Looking further, he saw the great bronze gates, and beyond them, the outer city that men called Punt, to distinguish it from El Shebbeh, the inner city.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Shortly thereafter Tananda were riding through the city outside the walls, which was known as Punt, when Agara appeared and stirred up the people against her.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Looking further, he saw the great bronze gates, and beyond them, the outer city that men called Punt, to distinguish it from El Shebbeh, the inner city.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Looking further, he saw the great bronze gates, and beyond them, the outer city that men called Punt, to distinguish it from El Shebbeh, the inner city.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

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  • "... the Egyptians themselves were scarcely any clearer on the source of their aromatics, a semimythical land they knew as 'Punt.' Located somewhere on the southern shores of the Red Sea, Punt was supplier to the temples and god-kings of the Nile for well over two thousand years. The earliest recorded expedition took place in the time of the pharoah Sahure, ruler from 2491 to 2477 B.C., although a slave from Punt appears in the court of Cheops (ca. 2589-2566 B.C.), builder of the great pyramid at Giza. For the sake of its aromatics, Punt was the destination of history's first recorded merchant fleet, a representation of which is still to be seen jinking an angular course around the walls of the temple of Deir al-Bahri, carved there by order of the female pharoah Hatshepsut around 1495 B.C. The reliefs depict a fleet of five ships, complete with sailors climbing aloft, teams of rowers, and steersmen fore and aft, navigating through a sea populated by giant squid and enormous fish. ... Modern scholarship generally concurs in situating Punt somewhere in the vicinity of modern Somalia, a voyage of some two thousand miles southward through the treacherous, reef-bound waters of the Red Sea."

    --Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 238

    December 6, 2016