Deir El-Medina in Luxor
Excavations on this site have brought about 70 houses to the light, surrounded by a boundary wall. The site is heavily ruined by time, but the structure of the houses is still well preserved. Each consisted of an entrance hall and four rooms, a staircase that leads down, and another that went up to the terraced roof.
The builders of the temples were buried in perfectly decorated tombs and topped with a small pyramid or a pyramidion in Deir El-Madina, south of the Valley of the Kings.
Valley of the Kings in Luxor
The best-known facts about the workers of Deir el-Madineh: The workers of the city monastery came out in the first revolution in history against the injustice of the rulers.
City monastery workers' rebellion confronts King's officials for stealing treasures from cemeteries.
City monastery workers refused to allow Pharaonic state rulers to unite married women.
The city monastery workers' revolution came out against moral corruption in Pharaonic times.
City monastery workers protested against not paying their wages for the intransigence of officials with them.
The small size of these tombs allows only small group visits. The tombs take the shape of a courtyard surrounded by a chapel, under which the funeral chamber was located. To the west, going up the hillside, you will come across some simpler tombs that are carved out of rock. 3 of them are open to the public and deserve to be visited for their magnificent wall decorations.
You can go and visit a special place called the The Deir Al -Shilouet Temple. It's a very old temple from ancient Egypt, where you can see and feel how great the Egyptians were a long time ago.