أين بلاد بونت !! آراء حول موقع بلاد بونت : دراسة تاريخية أثرية

Abstract EN

The land of Punt or the Holy Land was called by Egyptian sources.

It is a land of the fine&, mo& bitter fresh Incense and Myrrh ،that played a major role in religious, social and funerary life.

The kings of ancient Egypt began conducting many commer- cial missions to it from the time ofthe Old Empire until the Ptole- maic era.

The results ofthe missions were recorded on the walls of tombs and temples to commemorate these trips, because they are not easy to reach to this land, the features of its inhabitants have appeared Since the fifth dynaSt.

king Sahure, as for its geographfl ical and environmental aspects, it was mentioned in the drawings ofthe Hatshepsut temple in the Deir el -Bihari, the strange thing is that there was no mention of this country in any inscriptions or documents outside Egypt? There’s been a lot of attempts by re- searchers to locate it based on ancient Egyptian sources.

In this Study, we will review the different views and theories that researchers have discussed in order to determine the location of Puntland, through the study of ancient historical texts and ar- cheological evidence to reveal the eountry’s location, using this historical analytical descriptive approach.