The mystery of punt deepens.

Okay I think I found the final piece of the puzzle. It explains how exactly trade in the 4th millennium b.c between Mesopotamia and eygpt might have actually happened. @The alchemist

Its ironically exactly the same situation as the wadi hammat. In Saudi Arabia, there is a wadi call wadi rummah. It's one of the longest wadi's in the country it starts in Medina and goes all the way to the middle of the country and then goes underground

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Then there is a second wadi called wadi al batin, which is actually part of wadi rummah and goes from where it reappears underground to Kuwait.


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And here's basically what the full route would look like on Google maps

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I also honestly seemed to have underestimated the impact of the donkey since it seems like the massive cities of Mesopotamia only came into existence in the uruk period and this period started in the beginning of the 4th millennium b.c and the transition seems to have been in motion a little bit before that. All the major hallmarks of civilization seems to have developed in that time and it represented a massive change from the earlier ubaid period.

1 It seems like you need long distance trade for civilization and that without pack animals its not really possible.

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