She ruled from the palace. In terms of trade, Hatshepsut was notblind to the need of bolstering Egypt’s economy’ and indeed, thePunt expedition is but the climax of her consistent tradingenterprises with Lebanon, Crete, Syria, West Africa, South Africa,Aswan and the reopening of mines in Mt. Sinai. She traded Ivory,gold, silver and other goods for eating.

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