Egyptologists have long acknowledged that whichever geographical location truly conforms with the Land of Punt, it should have populations that share close biological ties with the ancient Egyptians.

As seen at Deir el-Bahri, among other archaeological sites, the Puntites are depicted as moderately tall and of gracile build, with “Caucasian" features and reddish-brown complexion, long wavy hair and chin-beard "goaty".

At Deir el-Bahri temple mural depicting the Puntite chief Parahu and his wife Ati and their people were depicted with dark-reddish complexions and fin features wearing long hair. Read: Ancient Egyptians were closer to Armenians than to Africans; a new genetics study reveals

Invistigating The people of Punt

The ancient Egyptians held a special reverence for the Land of Punt. Known to them as Ta netjer or Ta nuter (“God’s Land”), they regarded it as both their ancestral homeland and a spiritual center. Thus, whenever the ancient Egyptians depicted the Puntites on their temple walls, they consistently showed them as being similar to themselves in appearance and size. Punt was likewise always identified in the hieroglyphic texts without the determinative symbolising a foreign territory.


Egyptologists have also noted a sporadic occurrence of blondism in the Land of Punt. This can serve as a helpful hint as to where the territory was situated, for blond individuals were relatively uncommon in the ancient world. The Hatshepsut expedition murals show the Egyptians being received by a chief of Punt, one Parahu/Perahu, who the Egyptologist Édouard Naville writes is depicted as “flaxen” or blond-haired. However, if ancient blond individuals did, in fact, exist then blondism among the Puntites more likely reflects a strain of Indo-European one and the tribes who came from central Asia during the Bronze age.

Royal Marriages




It is very clear from the Biblical account that the edomities were not a regular peolple in the Region, but a people of Wisemen, Judjes, and Nobels.

If we examine the drawings at Die Al bahri we see three types of people, the Noble Punties not very different from Egyptians in appearance, others represented were clearly of Negro stock, and the Reddish who are similar to the Punties Nobles in a way. Such Resddish external morphological traits are relatively common among the Afro-Asiatic populations on either side of the Red Sea of Yemen and Saudi Arabia (see images).

In the April 2003 the American Journal of Human Genetics, article "Extensive female-mediated gene flow from sub-Saharan Africa into near eastern Arab populations". A study (In the April 2003 the American Journal of Human Genetics) found that some Arabic-speaking populations have what appears to be substantial mtDNA gene flow from sub-Saharan Africa, amounting to 10-15% of lineages within the past three millennia. In the case of Yemenites, the average is actually higher at 35%.

Contacts between eastern Africa and Arabia have existed since time immortal. And it seems that in Tihamah where this Afro-Arabian cultural complex arose with their Reddish skin people of the Red Sea shores.

A medieval chronicle of the Ethiopian Emperor Susenyos I, precisely identify the descendants of the “red” and “black” populations in the Horn of Africa. The royal court historian refers to the Afro-Asiatic non-slave populations as qayh (red) and the “shanqilla” groups as tsalim.

Egyptologists have long acknowledged that whichever geographical location truly conforms with the Land of Punt, it should have populations that share close biological ties with the ancient Egyptians; or, at the very least, with the ancient Egyptians’ lineal descendants, the modern Egyptians. Anthropological studies have confirmed that the populations of the Sinai and Arabian peninsula, share close physical and genetic ties with Egyptians as a whole.

Faces from the tribes of the South Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea, having African blood
 Faces from the Red Sea Tihamah, Yemen

Sinai and South Jordan bedouins also have blondeness