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The pictures in this gallery are of the worker's village on the west bank of the River Nile at Luxor and the Ptolemaic Temple, the Great Pit and small chapels of Hathor and Amun
Deir el-Medina EG075135jhp Deir al-Madinah Theban hills Hathor Temple Ruins workers houses streets is located on the West Bank of the River Nile at Luxor lies to the west of Qurnet Murai hill from which this view is taken in the direction of a workman's village with the remains of houses, streets, temples and chapels. The workers are known for their work in the Valley tombs which they reached walking over the Theban plateau. Most photographs show the streets, houses, interior with domestic bowls and grinding querns and others a general overview of the village with its tombs and rock tombs to the North West corner in the background undere the Theban hills. There are also some exquisitely decorated underground tombs of which a couple are included in the entrance ticket and to the left is the mudbrick enclosure walls of the Ptolemaic Temple to Hathor. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Luxor, Thebes, Theban, West, Bank, landscape, history, antiquity, ancient, archaeology, Egyptology, Deir, al-Madinah, el-Medina, Qurnet, Murai, Hill, Qurnat, Sheikh-Abd’el-Qurna, hills, Temple, Amun, Ptolemaic, colourful, limestone, walls, rooms, roofless, rock, tombs, chapels, pottery, shards, broken, temples, Hathor, Ptolemaic, Amun, chapel, mudbrick, enclosure
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Luxor Deir el Medinah
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Deir el-Medina EG075135jhp
Upload Date: 2007-10-19 13:08:42
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Deir al-Madinah Theban hills Hathor Temple Ruins workers houses streets

is located on the West Bank of the River Nile at Luxor lies to the west of Qurnet Murai hill from which this view is taken in the direction of a workman's village with the remains of houses, streets, temples and chapels. The workers are known for their work in the Valley tombs which they reached walking over the Theban plateau. Most photographs show the streets, houses, interior with domestic bowls and grinding querns and others a general overview of the village with its tombs and rock tombs to the North West corner in the background undere the Theban hills. There are also some exquisitely decorated underground tombs of which a couple are included in the entrance ticket and to the left is the mudbrick enclosure walls of the Ptolemaic Temple to Hathor.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Luxor, Thebes, Theban, West, Bank, landscape, history, antiquity, ancient, archaeology, Egyptology, Deir, al-Madinah, el-Medina, Qurnet, Murai, Hill, Qurnat, Sheikh-Abd’el-Qurna, hills, Temple, Amun, Ptolemaic, colourful, limestone, walls, rooms, roofless, rock, tombs, chapels, pottery, shards, broken, temples, Hathor, Ptolemaic, Amun, chapel, mudbrick, enclosure