"Land of Punt" is most likely located in Eritrea. EriXpress Interview with Professor Nate Dominy.
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Analysis of mummified baboons in the British Museum by Professor Nate Dominy and his team has revealed the location of the land of Punt as the area between Ethiopia and Eritrea. The Land of Punt was a place where Ancient Egyptians used to import ivory, leopard skin, baboons, ebony, fragrances, giraffes, electrum and other exotic goods. Land of Punt was sometimes referred to as Ta-netjer, or 'God’s land'. In this interview Professor Nate Dominy talks with Issayas Tesfamariam about his findings.
Professor Dominy and his team "first analyzed strontium and oxygen levels from 155 modern baboons in 77 different locations to create a molecular map of what these levels look like in different regions. They then analyzed two baboon mummies from the New Kingdom period (1520 B.C. to 1075 B.C.) and five from the Ptolemaic period (after 332 B.C.).
"They found that the New Kingdom baboons were born outside of Egypt, in the region that is modern-day Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia, none of which share a border with Egypt. This suggests that Egyptian sailors were quite capable seafarers, able to traverse the length of the Red Sea, Dominy said."
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