63: Hatshepsut's Excellent Adventure (The Great Expedition to Punt)

In 1488 BCE, King Hatshepsut launched her most famous project. A fleet of ships sailed down the Red Sea coast, in order to visit the land of Punt. There, they gathered trade goods, and met some truly fascinating locals...

• Date c.1488 BCE.
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Select Bibliography:

Ian Shaw (ed.), The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 2000.

Kara Cooney, The Woman Who Would Be King, 2014.

Nicolas Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt, 1994.

James H. Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, 1906.

Gay Robins, The Art of Ancient Egypt, 2006.

Catherine A. Roehrig (editor), Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh, 2005.

Edouard Naville, The Temple of Deir el-Bahari, vols. V and VI, 1906.

Betsy M. Bryan (editor), Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut, 2014.

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