The Egyptians left us mountains of evidence for Punt, none more so than Hatshepsut, whose 3,500-year-old temple at Deir el-Bahri near Thebes contains a veritable book in stone describing Punt ...

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 ...

As pharaoh, Hatshepsut (reigned from c1479 - 1458 BC) ... but by setting off on a trading expedition to the land of Punt, where no Egyptian had been for more than 500 years.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fragment was likely lifted from the temple in the late 19th century, before formal excavation and restoration of the Temple of Hatshepsut began in 1902. How it came to Swansea is less of a ...