Where did mumified baboons in Egypt come from?

One of the most important gods of ancient Egypt civilization was called Thot. He was a god of knowledge and wisdom. It is a known fact that Ancient Egyptians painted ther gods as animals. Interestingly Thot was often portraid as a baboon. Scientists even discovered some baboons that were mumified. Now they wanted to find out where they came from. IN order to do this they collected samples of genes of many babbons from different regions in Africa and compared them with these of mumified baboons. It turned out that egyptian entirely came from so called "Horn of Africa" precicely - Eritrea. Now scientists speculate that this region can be historical "Punt"- region that was described by ancient egyptians as place were babboons came from. source:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/10/231024110554.htm

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