One of Hatshepsut's Punt ships setting sail, ... where they loaded them onto other ships for the journey south to the capital at Thebes.

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 ...

Hatshepsut was a female pharaoh of Egypt. She reigned between 1473 and 1458 B.C. Her name means “foremost of noblewomen.” Her rule was relatively peaceful and she was able to launch a building ...

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 declared herself pharaoh, ... a trading expedition to the fabled land of Punt, along the southern shore of the Red Sea, where no Egyptian had been for 500 years.

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 ...

“For over a century, the Land of Punt is thought to be nothing more than a tall tale, first discovered in a 4,000-year-old papyrus of a sailor telling stories of fabulous creatures and exotic ...

Hatshepsut, now queen of Egypt, bore her husband/brother a daughter, Princess Neferure, but no son. When Tuthmosis II died suddenly, after a mere three years on the throne, a dynastic crisis ...

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 ...

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 ...