Essays Tagged: "Land of Punt"

Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt

ommerce. She sent a fleet of five ships with thirty rowers each from Kosseir on the Red Sea, to the Land of Punt, near present-day Somalia. On the walls of her beautiful temple, the Deir el-Bahri, Hat ... ut described in lengthy inscriptions that say "the ships were laden with the costly products of the Land of Punt and with its many valuable woods, with very much sweet smelling resin and frankincense, ...

(5 pages) 57 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Assess the importance of the Punt expedition to the reign to Hatshepsut.

he Eighteenth Dynasty, University Press 1984Edwards, A.A.B. Queen Hatasu, and Her Expedition to the Land of Punt, 1891Tyldesley, J. Daughters of Isis: women of ancient Egypt, 1994 Penguin BooksThe Col ...

(5 pages) 29 0 5.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History > Ancient Egypt