One More Geological Clue Still Pending; “The Obsidian of the Land of Punt”

By: Mahmoud A. Emam Teaching Assistant, Institute of African Studies and Research, Cairo University. Mahmoud.emam@cu.edu.eg All the copyrights for the registered letter belong to the authors – This is not a published letter yet, the authors need to address the comments by the readers before the publication. From the Old Kingdom (c. 2575–2150 BC) onwards, Punt was frequently recorded in Egyptian royal, private, religious and literary texts as a geographical region from which frankincense and other exotic products were imported as well as that mythical…

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