Hatshepsut and other pharaohs sent huge expeditions to Punt—flotillas of robust, seagoing ships with thousands of men.

In the 15th century B.C., the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled as a king, launched a fabled expedition to a far-away land known as Punt, later recording the journey in a stone bas ...

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 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.

Legend has it that Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt's first female pharaoh, sent ships to the land of Punt. Cheryl Ward sets out to recreate the voyage, in search of this mythical land. Show more Over ...

Hatshepsut would become the unfortunate victim, not of a personal attack, but of an impersonal attempt at retrospective political correctness. Tuthmosis set his masons to re-write history.

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 ...

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 declared herself pharaoh, ruling as a man would for over 20 years and portraying herself in statues and paintings with a male body and false beard.

Tomb inscriptions reveal how in the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt Queen Hatshepsut built a Red Sea fleet to facilitate trade between the head of the Gulf of Aqaba and points south as far as Punt to ...