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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 Houses EG051881JHP Deir el-Medina Workers Village Vista Houses Inside Streets Hills Tombs Rock Cut is located on the West Bank of the River Nile at Luxor lies to the west of Qurnet Murai hill and is the location of a workman's village with the remains of houses, streets and to the north a Ptolemaic Temple and other chapels. The workers are known for their work in the Valley tombs which they reached walking over the Theban plateau. Several 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. There are also some exquisitely decorated underground tombs of which a couple are included in the entrance ticket. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Luxor, Thebes, Theban, upright, West Bank, history, antiquity, ancient, archaeology, Egyptology, al-Madinah, el-Medina, Qurnet Murai, Sheikh-Abd’el-Qurna, hill, houses, streets, domestic, kitchen, quern, bowls, lamps, stone, walls, steps, rock, tombs, deep, holes, limestone
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Luxor Deir el Medinah
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Deir el-Medina Houses EG051881JHP
Upload Date: 2005-04-25 12:43:41
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Deir el-Medina Workers Village Vista Houses Inside Streets Hills Tombs

Rock Cut is located on the West Bank of the River Nile at Luxor lies to the west of Qurnet Murai hill and is the location of a workman's village with the remains of houses, streets and to the north a Ptolemaic Temple and other chapels. The workers are known for their work in the Valley tombs which they reached walking over the Theban plateau. Several 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. There are also some exquisitely decorated underground tombs of which a couple are included in the entrance ticket.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Luxor, Thebes, Theban, upright, West Bank, history, antiquity, ancient, archaeology, Egyptology, al-Madinah, el-Medina, Qurnet Murai, Sheikh-Abd’el-Qurna, hill, houses, streets, domestic, kitchen, quern, bowls, lamps, stone, walls, steps, rock, tombs, deep, holes, limestone