ABSTRACT
Texts locating Punt doubt to the south are in the minority, but they are the only ones cited in the consensus on the location of the 'country'. There were too few publications available at the time to enable researchers to appreciate how often this land, foreign to Egypt, was mentioned in texts, and to speculate as to its location. The position changed from the 1850s, after the new Antiquities Service of Egypt began the clearance of the great temples in Upper Egypt; H. Brugsch suggested that Punt should be positioned in the Arabian Peninsula. The reliefs are the only pharaonic period example of an Egyptian pictorial representation of a country outside Egypt complete with its inhabitants and landscape. Punt virtually never seems to find itself in conflict with Egypt, or with any other country for that matter. Gold and electrum are often prominent among those items brought back from Punt or delivered by Puntites.
