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Deir El-Medina in Luxor

  • 05 16, 2023

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

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.

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El-Medina, Deir Deir Al-Madina is a section of the cemetery of the funerary city of Thebes and is situated in Jabal al-Gurna, north of the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, in southern Egypt.

Deir El Medina is an ancient Egyptian village located on the west bank of the Nile River in Luxor. It was home to the artisans and craftsmen who worked on the nearby tombs in the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens.

The settlement is well-known for both its remarkable preservation and the window into ancient Egyptian daily life that it offers. Deir el-Medina is a singular archaeological site that provides a window into the past with its elaborately painted tombs and well-preserved homes. 

 

Deir el-Medina, in Upper Egypt, is part of the Thebes necropolis in the north of the Valley of the Kings in Luxor Governorate, on the west bank of the Nile River. It was home to families of artisanal workers during the Egyptian New Kingdom (1570-1070 BC). Some of them dug and built the tombs of the pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings, while others made statues, furniture, and utensils to prepare the tomb of each pharaoh according to his wishes before death. The workers who built the tombs were specialists and artists in designing, digging and decorating the walls of the tomb, to make it a "palace" that the pharaoh could return to on occasions after his death.

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