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Ancient records always referred to a vast powerful "Kingdom of Kush." Robert E. Howard had his barbarian hero, Conan, run into Kushites a number of times. The New Testament referred to all of Nubia as Kush, because Kush was the name of one of the sons of Ham who settled northeast Africa.

There are hundreds of pyramids in Sudan, far outnumbering Egypt, built by the kings and queens of the Kingdom of Kush in the necropolis of the cities along the Nile.

The history of the Nubians of Sudan evolved from the ancient Kerma culture and flourished along the banks of the Nile into the Kingdom of Kush and eventually into Egypt.

Reviewer In the interests of transparency, eLife publishes the most substantive revision requests and the accompanying author responses. Acceptance summary: This study presents a creative and interdisciplinary approach to a long-standing historical question: the location of Punt, an ancient kingdom with a vast trading network. The authors seamlessly integrate archaeological findings and historical texts with their analyses of oxygen and strontium isotope mapping to trace the geographical origin...