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Over 3,000 years ago legend has it that Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt's first female pharaoh, sent a fleet of ships to the wonderful, distant land of Punt. A bas-relief in the temple where she is entombed in Luxor shows them bringing back extraordinary treasures. But did this expedition really happen? And if it did, where exactly is the land of Punt?

Drawing upon recent finds, archaeologist Cheryl Ward sets out to recreate the voyage in a full-size replica of one of these ancient ships, sailing it in the wake of Hatshepsut's fleet in search of the mythical land of Punt. A human adventure as well as a scientific challenge, the expedition proves that, contrary to popular belief, the ancient Egyptians had the necessary tools, science and techniques to sail the seas.

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  "...a command was heard from the great throne, an oracle of the god hmself, that the ways to Punt should be searched out, that the highways to the myrrh-terraces should be penetrated"

  " I will lead the army on water and on land, to bring marvels from God's land for this god, for the fashioner of her beauty..." (Breasted, Records, Vol. II, Sec. 285)
  

  "I have led them (the company of the expedition) on water and on land, to explore the waters of the inaccessible channels, and I have reached the myrrh-terraces." (Breasted, Records, Vol. II, Sec. 288)

  Punt Reliefs:" I have reached the myrrh-terraces. It is a glorious region of God's land" (Breasted, Records, Vol II, Sec. 288.)

  Chronicles II -9:11 - "And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the Lord, and to the king's palace...and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah."

  Josephus:" And the king received her gladly on her arrival and was studious to please her in all ways, in particular by mentally grasping with ease the ingenious problems she set him. "(Jewish Antiquities, VIII, 167. )

  When the queen saw the palace of the king, "and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cup bearers, and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her" (I Kings 10:4-5)

  Punt Reliefs: "(She praised) the greatness of the marvels, which happened to her.  Never did the like happen under any gods who were before, since the beginning." (Breasted, Records, Vol. II, Sec 274)

  Punt Reliefs:" It was heard of from mouth to mouth by hearsay o f the ancestors...."

  I Kings 10:6-7:" And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.  Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it, and behold, the half was not told me; thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard."

  "King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches.  (The land  seemed to the queen an abode of happy men.) Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants...Blessed be the L-rd thy G-d" (I Kings 10:8-9)

  Punt Relief: "It is a glorious region of G-d's Land. It is indeed my place of delight...I conciliated them by love that they might give to thee praise."

  Queen of Sheba: "because the L-rd loved Israel for ever, therefore made  thee king..."(I Kings 10:9)

  Punt Relief:"because he (Amon) so much loves the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Hatshepsut..."

  "And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones" (II Chronicles 9:)

  "And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked..."

  for more, see: Immanuel Velikovsky, Ages in Chaos, volume I: From the Exodus to King Akhnaton, (pp. 104-141.)

   

  Was Hatshepsut the QUEEN OF SHEBA?

  Was Hatshepsut the QUEEN OF SHEBA — or Merely the Queen of Theba?

   Emmet Sweeney

  In my 2006 book Empire of Thebes: Ages in Chaos Revisited I argued that most of the synchronisms and character identifications proposed by Immanuel Velikovsky in his Ages in Chaos (1952) were actually correct, and that the errors committed by him — which the critics made so much of — were of a relatively minor nature. Ages in Chaos, in short, needed fine-tuning, not complete rejection. Indeed, Velikovsky missed a great deal of evidence in his favor. This was the case, for example, with the equation of Hatshepsut with the Queen of Sheba.

  In Ages in Chaos Velikovsky argued that the Eighteenth Dynasty rose to power at the same time as the kingdom of Israel, and that the first pharaohs of that line, Ahmose and Amenhotep I, were contemporaries of Israel’s first two kings, Saul and David. About thirty years after the war of liberation, Egypt came to be ruled by Hatshepsut, an extraordinary woman, one who, unique in the annals of Egypt’s history, claimed the honor and title of Pharaoh. In Velikovsky’s system, Hatshepsut must have been a contemporary of Solomon, the fabulously wealthy and powerful son of King David. For Velikovsky, it was but a short step from placing Hatshepsut at the same time as Solomon to making her identical to Solomon’s famous royal visitor, the Queen of Sheba.    READ MORE
  

   
  Interview with Emanuel Velikovsky

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