[1] The film explores the legend that a large number of ships were built by Hatshepsut, the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, capable of trade with the Land of Punt.

[1] Hatshepsut is known as one of the earliest female rulers of Egypt, her reign lasting around twenty years.

[3] The ships are illustrated in the bas-relief located at the temple in Luxor, and were alleged to have sailed the Red Sea.

[3][4] To test the legend, the documentary's archaeologists performed an experiment by reconstructing a working ship, named Min, using the bas-relief and knowledge of the technology of the era as a guide.

"[4] Paul Whitelaw of The Scotsman praised the film for depicting a "convincing case to support the hypothesis that, contrary to popular belief, the ancient Egyptians possessed the technological wherewithal to sail the high seas," but sardonically remarked that the narrator "sounded like Miriam Margolyes as the sexy rabbit from the Cadbury's Caramel adverts," a choice that was "tenuously apt" because of the "soft-focus dramatic reconstructions, Hatshepsut feeding grapes to her royal monkey etc" that "resembled a Flake ad.