IN RETROSPECT...
 

The Land of Punt was commercially important for the goods it provided to Egypt and, more generally, to the outside world. The bulk of these exports originated in the interior of what later became known as Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. Such articles were brought to the coast by ancient trade routes linking the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Coast with the economically more productive hinterland.
 

The Ethiopian Borderlands
Essays in Regional History from Ancient Times to the End of the 18th Century
Copyright 1997 Richard Pankhurst