Detail of reliefs from the walls of Queen Hatshepsut's mortuary temple, Deir el-Bahri (IMAGE)

Dartmouth College

Detail of reliefs from the walls of Queen Hatshepsut's mortuary temple, Deir el-Bahri

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The baboon is one of seven examples of Papio hamadryas depicted in the rigging of Egyptian ships returning to Egypt from Punt.

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Photograph and figure by Nathaniel J. Dominy.

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