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Thanks to a mummified 3,300-year-old baboon skull, Nathaniel Dominy, a primatologist at Dartmouth College, and his team were able to get a solid idea as to Punts whereabouts.  The skull was archived in the British Museums archives. This was a hamadryas baboon, which was originally discovered in Egypt, where these types of primates were revered even though they were not native to the land. Dominys team studied this particular baboons teeth, more specifically the oxygen and strontium isotope co...

Ideas, Inventions And Innovations Mummified Baboons Shine Vew Light on the Lost Land of Punt Ancient Punt was a major trading partner of Egyptians for at least 1,100 years. It was an important source of luxury goods, including incense, gold, leopard skins, and living baboons. Located somewhere in the southern Red Sea region in either Africa or Arabia, scholars have debated its geographic location for more than 150 years.  Specimen EA6736 recovered from the New Kingdom Temple of Khons and now...