st known depictions of a hunter on horseback. The rock art is dated to 1,000 to 3,000 BCE.

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[53]
 Additionally, between the towns of Las Khorey and El Ayo in northern Somalia
lies Karinhegane, the site of numerous cave paintings of both real and mythical animals. Each
painting has an inscription below it, which collectively have been estimated to be around 2,500
years old.[54][55]

Antiquity and classical era[edit]

Main articles: Somali Architecture and Sesea

Men from Punt carrying Gifts, Tomb of Rekhmire.

Ancient pyramidical structures, mausoleums, ruined cities and stone walls, such as

the Wargaade Wall, are evidence of an old civilization that once thrived in the Somali peninsula.
[56][57]
 This civilization enjoyed a trading relationship with ancient Egypt and Mycenaean
Greece since the second millennium BCE, supporting the hypothesis that Somalia or adjacent
regions were the location of the ancient Land of Punt.[56][58] The Puntites native to the region,
traded myrrh, spices, gold, ebony, short-horned cattle, ivory and frankincense with the Egyptians,
Phoenicians, Babylonians, Indians, Chinese and Romans through their commercial ports. An
Egyptian expedition sent to Punt by the 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut is recorded on the
temple