Editing History of Somalia (section)

===Land of Punt===
{{Main|Land of Punt}}Ancient [[Somalian architecture|pyramidical structures]], [[mausoleum]]s, [[Lost city|ruined cities]] and [[stone wall]]s found in Somalia (such as the [[Wargaade Wall]]) are evidence of an old sophisticated civilization that once thrived in the Somali peninsula.<ref name="Nthos">{{cite book|last=Njoku|first=Raphael Chijioke|title=The History of Somalia|year=2013|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0313378577|pages=29–31|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FlL2vE_qRQ8C}}</ref><ref name="Titthtw">{{cite book|last=Dalal|first=Roshen|title=The Illustrated Timeline of the History of the World|year=2011|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group|isbn=978-1448847976|page=131|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RO4kS1IR71sC}}</ref> The findings of archaeological excavations and research in Somalia show that this civilization enjoyed a lucrative trading relationship with [[Ancient Egypt]] and [[Mycenaean Greece]] since the second millennium BCE. This supports the hypothesis of Somalia and/or the adjacent Horn territories corresponding with the ancient [[Land of Punt]].<ref name="Nthos"/><ref name="Etdttfc">{{cite book|editor-last=Abdel Monem A. H. Sayed|editor-first=Zahi A. Hawass|title=Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: Archaeology|year=2003|publisher=American Univ in Cairo Press|isbn=9774246748|pages=432–433|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1E13DorsFMEC}}</ref> The Puntites traded [[myrrh]], spices, gold, [[ebony]], short-horned cattle, ivory and [[frankincense]] with the Ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians, Babylonians, Indians, Chinese and Romans through their commercial ports. An Ancient Egyptian expedition sent to Punt by the 18th dynasty Queen [[Hatshepsut]] is recorded on the temple reliefs at [[Deir el-Bahari]], during the reign of the Puntite King Parahu and Queen Ati.<ref name="Nthos"/> According to Christiane Noblecourt, these expeditions were further facilitated by the existence of a common language between Egypt and Punt.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Desroches-Noblecourt |first=Christiane |title=La reine mystérieuse: Hatshepsout |date=2002 |publisher=Pygmalion |isbn=978-2-85704-748-3 |location=Paris}}</ref> Traces of these ties also survive in Somali folklore. One recorded myth describes the origin of the Egyptian Pharaohs as follows:

''“There were once two brothers: one tall and strong, the other short and thin; they lived in the Peninsula. One day the little one, very jealous of his brother, went north and settled in Egypt. And since he had an inferiority complex, he built great pyramids and sculpted huge statues.”''<ref name="Mohamed-Abdi 1992">{{Cite book |last=Mohamed-Abdi |first=Mohamed |title=Histoire des croyances en Somalie: religions traditionnelles et religions du Livre |date=1992 |publisher=Belles Lettres |isbn=978-2-251-60465-7 |series=Annales littéraires de l'Université de Besançon ; Centre de recherches d'histoire ancienne |location=Paris}}</ref>

One of the main scholarly work on Punt, written from a native Somali standpoint, was by Somali historian Muxamed Ibraahim Muxamed, who wrote the work: ''Taariikhda Soomaaliya: dalkii filka weynaa ee punt''.<ref>Taxanaha taariikhda Soomaaliya - Page 332, Abdulaziz Ali Ibrahim · 2006</ref>