Empire is incorrectly written, and should be written as "emporio" being its meaning: Empire = emporioUn emporio ( Greek do ¼aia¹ ½, '' emporion '' ) It was a place that the traders of a nation had reserved for commercial interests in the territory of another nation. The famous emporiums include Sais where Solon came to acquire knowledge of the Egyptians; Elim where Hatshepsut kept its fleet of the Red Sea; Elat, current Eilat, where Thebes was supplied funerary materials as fabric of linen, bitumen, naphtha, frankincense, myrrh and amulets of carved stone of Palestine, Canaan, Aram, Lebanon, Hazor, Moab, Edom and the Arabian peninsula from Petra to Midian and Punt.