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Deir el-Medina: central section of artisans' town
View of central portion of Deir el-Medina.
Deir el Medina housed generations of craftsworkers and their families who built and decorated the tombs of the Pharaohs in the nearby Valley of the Kings during the 18th-20th Dynasties. The village, first excavated by Flinders Petrie in the 1880s-90s, was laid out in a rectangular plan inside of a brick enclosure.
Along a series of parallel streets were mud-brick houses containing several rooms, often arranged around a central atrium. This photo shows a central portion of the residential area.
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