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2613 BCE - 2498 BCE: Trade already well established between Egypt and The Land of Punt.
2498 BCE - 2345 BCE: Trade between Egypt and Punt prospers.
1991 BCE - 1802 BCE: The Egyptian Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor features Punt as a mystical island of "all good things". .
1493 BCE: Hatshepsut's expedition returns with 31 live incense trees; first recorded transplant of foreign fauna.
1493 CE: Punt becomes land of myth; steadily vanishes from historical inscriptions in Egypt.