in his last year, sahure sent the first documented expedition to the fabled land of punt, probably along the somalian coast. the expedition, which is conjectured to have departed egypt from the harbor of mersa gawasis, is reported on the palermo stone where it is said to have come back with 80,000 of an unspecified measure of myrrh, along with malachite, 6000 measures of electrum and 2600 or 23,020 staves, possibly made of ebony.