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Pharaoh's Workers
The Villagers of Deir El Medina
Leonard H. Lesko (Edited by)
9780801429156
Hardback, published 3 June 1994
224 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.907 kg
Pharaoh's Workers will appeal to everyone interested in Near Eastern archaeology... An attractive addition to the reading list for undergraduate courses in history, religion, and archaeology. This volume provides an excellent introduction to the varied evidence available for the study of the lives of the men and women who built and decorated Ramesside Period royal tombs.
Pharaoh's Workers focuses on the archaeological site at Deir el Medina on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor. The workers who prepared the royal tombs and lived there in what has been called "the earliest known artists' colony" left a rich store of artifacts and documents through which we can glimpse not only their working conditions and domestic activities, but also their religious beliefs and private thoughts.