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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 EG075138jhp Deir el-Medina Luxor Egypt pot bowl vessel broken shards lying ground 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, 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. There are also some exquisitely decorated underground tombs of which a couple are included in the entrance ticket. 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, bowls, pots, 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 EG075138jhp
Upload Date: 2007-10-19 13:09:37
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Deir el-Medina Luxor Egypt pot bowl vessel broken shards lying

ground 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, 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. There are also some exquisitely decorated underground tombs of which a couple are included in the entrance ticket.
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, bowls, pots, broken, temples, Hathor, Ptolemaic, Amun, chapel, mudbrick, enclosure