Deir el-Medina is the most important "living" archaeological site in Egypt. While the pyramids and temples tell us about the divine and the dead, Deir el-Medina reveals the intimate, messy, and incredibly bureaucratic reality of the people who actually built the tombs in the Valley of the Kings.Located in a quiet desert valley across the Nile from modern-day Luxor, this was a purpose-built, walled settlement for the elite workforce—the royal tom…
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