In Egypt, archaeologists have unearthed a series of tombs that date back 1,800 to 4,800 years ago. The tombs are located at an archaeological site in northern Saqqara, which is about 20 miles from Cairo.
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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 origins of mummified hamadryas baboons from ancient Egypt. Their isotopic evidence independently corroborates other historical sources pointing to the location of Punt at the horn of Africa along the Red Sea.
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