In Search of Aromatics: Journey to the Land of Pount" conference

  • Category: Conference
  • Dates : October 18, 2022
  • Timetable: 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
  • Location: Faculty of Science, Triolet campus

October 18, 2022 from 18:30 to 20:00

Faculty of Science, campus Triolet, amphithéâtre A36.03 - Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier.

For over 1,000 years, from 2500 to 1200 BC, from the 5th to the 20th dynasties, the Egyptians dispatched expeditions to the land of Punt to procure aromatics, in particular myrrh(Commiphora myrrha). But why? And, above all, where is this region, which Egyptologists struggle to locate on a map?