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Tomb Builders The village of Dayr al Madinah, home to the workmen who excavated and decorated the tombs in the Valley of the Kings

was probably founded during the reign of Thutmes I. His name was found stamped on the many bricks of the first enclosure wall of the village. But Amenhetep I and his mother Ahmes Nefertari were traditionally called its patrons, which may indicate that there was at least a small settlement here during their reign. The village remained in use throughout the New Kingdom (except during the Amarna Period).

Dayr al Madinah is located in a small valley southeast of the Valley of the Kings and northeast of the Valley of the Queens. The village, which was systematically enlarged during the New Kingdom, consisted of one main street along a north-south axis, and a few side alleys. The houses - there were about seventy of them - each had an entrance hall that also functioned as a private chapel, followed by a columned living area that gave access to a small cellar, used for storage. The main room led to smaller rooms, perhaps used as sleeping quarters, and sometimes a staircase led to the roof. At the back of the house an open space was used as a kitchen.

The workmen of the royal necropolis were called the "Servants in the Great Place" or "Servants in the Beautiful Place of the Mighty King" throughout Dynasty 18, and "Servants in the Place of Truth" during the Rameside Period. They were also called the "Men of the Gang," a reference to the Egyptian term ist, meaning "gang" or "crew," a term that came from the Egyptian military and navy. The number of workmen employed on a project varied between 30 and 120, according to the size of the tomb being cut. The men were divided into two groups, a right gang and a left gang. Two foremen and their deputies were appointed to supervise each gang. Scribes kept detailed records of each workman's attendance, accounts of salary payments, and records of any material removed from the royal storerooms.

The working day was divided into two shifts of about four hours each. The week was composed of eight working days followed by two days of rest. During these, the workmen returned to their homes to attend to personal affairs. They might also have spent the night in a settlement of huts located on the col of the mountain between the village and the Valley of the Kings.

If a tomb was completed prior to the death of its royal owner, the workmen were assigned to work on the tombs of queens and royal children in the Valley of the Queens and sometimes even on the tombs of noblemen. As time permitted, workmen could build their own tombs, adjacent to the village of Dayr al Madinah.

The daily life of the workmen and their family is well-known thanks to the vast number of documents found at Dayr al Madinah. Thousands of Ostraca, numerous stelae, graffiti, and about two hundred documentary and literary papyri describing daily activity were recovered from the village and the Valley of the Kings.

In chamber 2 of KV 5, the Theban Mapping Project found an ostracon written by the scribe Qenherkhepeshef. According to Egyptologist Rob Demarée, the ostracon is a receipt for oil lamps used to light the work in this tomb. Because of the ostracon's distinctive handwriting, Demarée was able to identify its scribe as the well-known Qenherkhepeshef, who oversaw much of the building work of Rameses II. He was born during the reign of Rameses II, and lived until the first year of the reign of Siptah. Qenherkhepeshef's father was Panakht, but he also seems to have been adopted by Ramose, another scribe. According to ancient documents, Qenherkhepeshef was not especially popular. He was accused of corruption and of using royal workmen for personal projects.

Qenherkhepeshef and his descendants collected a large library of papyri that were recovered from the cemetery at Dayr al Madinah by French excavators in 1928. It included official letters, religious texts, tales, poetry, medical and magical texts.

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About The Valley of the Kings

On the West Bank of the Nile across from modern Luxor, cut into the Theban Hills, lies the Valley of the Kings (KV). Chosen as the burial-place for most of Egypt’s New Kingdom rulers, it was selected for several reasons. It lies only a kilometer or so west of the temples and villages of the Theban people, it is a small valley surrounded by steep cliffs and is easily guarded, the bedrock in which it was cut by torrential rains millions of years ago is limestone of generally good quality, and towering above it is a mountain known today as the Qurn(meaning “the horn” in Arabic). The shape of the Qurn may have reminded the Egyptians of a pyramid, a shape associated with the sun god, Re, and long associated with royal burials.

There are 64* numbered royal and private tombs in KV, ranging from small, pit tombs (KV 54) to huge labyrinths with over 120 corridors and chambers (KV 5). A few tombs have been “discovered” only in the past hundred years or so (KV 62: Tutankhamen; KV 46: Yuyaand Thuya; KV 36: Maiherperi; KV 5: Sons of Rameses II), but most had been opened - and plundered - long ago, some in antiquity, shortly after they were first sealed, others in Graeco-Roman and Byzantine (Coptic) times. There also may still be more. Dr. Zahi Hawass and an Egyptian-led expedition recently made a discovery tentatively numbered KV 65 in the West Valley, and their work is ongoing.

On this note, it is worth highlighting that there are effectively two Valleys of the Kings, the East and the West. The East Valley is the well-known one to which tourists flock and that contains the most tombs. The West Valley covers a much larger area and is the least explored. It has only two royal tombs, KV 22: Amenhotep III, and KV 23: Ay.

*KV 64 will be added to the website in future updates

Noteworthy features:
This is the principal burial site for the rulers of Egypt's New Kingdom. Its tombs contain unique examples of funerary decoration.

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The List of Most Worshiped Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
1.The family of Osiris
2.Isis nursing Horus
3.Horus
4.Depiction of the phases of the moon before the god Thoth
5.Ramses before the god Re-Horakhty
Ra or Re was the sun god
6.Seth and Nephthys
7.A statue showing the Egyptian goddess Mut
8.Wadjet-Bastet, with a lioness head
9.Mut and Amon during the Serving the Gods of Egypt
10.Colossal statue of the god Ptah with Ramesses II
11Depiction of Wadjet with a sun disc
12.Statue of Hathor
13.Statues of Sekhmet
14.Anubis as an anthropomorphic jackal-headed god
15.Representation of Maat as a winged goddess
Lista celor mai adorați zei și zeițe egiptene antice
1.Familia lui Osiris
2.Isis care îl alăptează pe Horus
3.Horus
4.Reprezentarea fazelor lunii înaintea zeului Thoth
5.Ramses înaintea zeului Re-Horakhty Ra sau Re era zeul soarelui
6.Seth și Nephthys
7. O statuie care o înfățișează pe zeița egipteană Mut 8.Wadjet-Bastet, cu un cap de leoaică
9.Mut și Amon în timpul slujirii zeilor Egiptului
10.Statuie colosală a zeului Ptah cu Ramses II 11Reprezentarea lui Wadjet cu un disc solar
12.Statuie lui Hathor 13.Statuile lui Sekhmet 14.Anubis ca zeu antropomorf cu cap de șacal 15.Reprezentarea lui Maat ca zeiță înaripată

Contents of an ancient Egyptian bedroom ❤
It consists of a bed, a headrest, and a cosmetics box
This furniture is preserved in the British Museum

The moment the Queen T statue was discovered in 2004 in Luxor

The beauty and splendor of the sculpture from the coffin of Minister Sasobek during the reign of King Psamtik I
Made of black basalt
It dates back to the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty
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A very magnificent and beautiful statue of King Ramesses II 👑
Made of black granite, it shows King Ramses II wearing the blue war crown and holding a scepter in his right hand.
It dates back to the Nineteenth Dynasty
Circa (1279-1213 BC)
It is located in the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy

These clasped hands are part of a statue discovered at Tell el-Amarna.
It was among a group of statues of King Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti
(Dynasty 18) - currently in the New Museum, Berlin, Germany.

Bird hunting scene from Nebamun's mural
He lived around 1350 BC
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Luxor Temple, Ipet-resyt “Southern Sanctuary” to the ancient Egyptians, was so called because of its location within ancient Thebes (modern Luxor). It is located around three kilometers to the south of Karnak Temple, to which it was once linked with a processional way bordered with sphinxes. The oldest evidence for this temple dates to the Eighteenth Dynasty (c.1550–1295 BC).

Ipet-resyt, unlike most other ancient Egyptian temples, is not laid out on an east-west axis, but is oriented towards Karnak. This is because Luxor Temple was the main venue for one the most important of ancient Egyptian religious celebrations, when the cult images of Amun, his wife Mut, and their son, the lunar god Khonsu, were taken from their temples in Karnak, and transported in a grand procession to Luxor Temple so they could visit the god that resides there, Amenemopet. This was the Opet Festival.

Luxor Temple was not built by one single ruler. The oldest existing structure, a shrine, dates to the reign of Hatshepsut (c.1473–1458 BC). The core of the temple was built by Amenhotep III (c.1390–1352 BC). One of the inner rooms contains a series of scenes that are known as the Divine Birth. They tell the amazing story of how the king’s true father was none other than the god Amun-Ra himself, disguised as Thutmose IV (c.1400–1390 BC). The core of the temple is preceded by a columned hall fronted by a courtyard with columns around its perimeter. Amenhotep III also built the Great Colonnade, which consists of two rows of seven colossal columns. Its decoration, most notably the scenes depicting the Opet Festival, were completed by Tutankhamun (c.1336–1327 BC) and Horemheb (c.1323–1295 BC).

Ramesses II (c.1279–1213 BC) made many additions to Luxor Temple. In front of the Great Colonnade, he built a peristyle courtyard and a massive pylon, a gate with two towers that formed the entrance into temples. In addition to many colossal statues, the pylon was also fronted by a pair of 25-meter-high obelisks made by this great king, but only one remains in place; the other has been at the Place de la Concorde in Paris since 1836.

In the late third century AD, the Romans built a fort around the temple, and the first room beyond the hypostyle hall of Amenhotep III became its sanctuary. The original wall reliefs were covered with plaster, and painted in the Graeco-Roman artistic style, depicting Emperor Diocletian (284–305 AD) and his three coregents. Although these had largely disappeared, efforts are under way to restore these reliefs to their former glory.

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The temple of Ramses III in Medinet Habu was the last of the great funerary structures to be built in Western Thebes. It is currently the best-preserved monument on the west bank.

When erecting the building, the pharaoh modelled it on his predecessor - Ramses II the Great and his Ramesseum. The Temple of Ramesses III was built on the southern border of the necropolis, near the holy place of the Theban hill. It was there, according to tradition, that Amon appeared and the so-called Hermopolitan Ogdoad, a group of eight deities participating in the act of creating the world, rested.

Three gates lead to the temple area, two West and one East, which is the best-preserved gate. Richly decorated, it is a type of architecture unique to Egypt. It was modelled on the Middle Eastern gatehouse entrance, which was known as a migdol or migdal. These took the form of decorative towers. The Theban Gate, however, had a residential character and, together with the side wings, was part of a representative palace. The ruler resided in it during the holidays taking place in Western Thebes.

Medinet Habu is distinguished by the best-preserved temple palace in Thebes and the magnificent decorations of its first pylon and the courtyard. The reliefs show the victory of Ramses III. Inside the palace, on the northern wall, your attention is drawn to the Window of Appearances, in which the king sat during religious ceremonies. After the ruler's death, thanks to the false door (also known as “Ka doors”, as they allowed the Ka - an element of the soul, to pass through them) placed in the back wall of the throne room, the pharaoh's spiritual form was able to pe*****te from the tomb to the palace and participate in sacrificial activities.

The decoration of the second courtyard is dedicated to the celebration of feasts in honor of Min (god of harvest) and Sokaris (ruler of the state of the dead), as well as the Beautiful Festival of the Valley. Unfortunately, as in many other places in the area of Thebes, here also the Copts, or Egyptian Christians, wreaked havoc. To make room for the construction of the church, they destroyed statues and forged crosses on the walls of the temple.

The complex in Medinet Habu also includes residential buildings for priests, administrative buildings, barracks, stables, ponds and gardens.

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Luxor is one of Egypt’s most precious inheritances when it comes to Egyptian ancient civilization. With a vast number of incredible ancient monuments, one of Luxor’s great temples is the Karnak Temple.



The Karnak Temple Complex consists of a number of temples, chapels, and other buildings in the form of a village, and is for that reason that the name Karnak was given to this complex as in Arabic Karnak means ‘fortified village’.



Where is the Karnak Temple located?


The Karnak temple is located in Karnak, in Luxor Governorate, in the south of Egypt on the east side of the Nile River bank.



When was the Karnak Temple built?


The Karnak Temple dates back from around 2055 BC to around 100 AD. It was built as a cult temple and was dedicated to the gods Amun, Mut, and khonsu. Being the largest building for religious purposes ever to be constructed, the Karnak Temple was known as “most select of places” by ancient Egyptians.

What is the Luxor Temple made out of?


The Luxor Temple was constructed of sandstone blocks from Nubia. The temple is surrounded by mud-brick walls which symbolize the separation between the world and the sacred realm of the gods. The Temple’s design during the New Kingdom exhibited a set of common design features in the construction of the temple. The Luxor Temple displays many of the features typical of temple construction known during the New Kingdom.

Where is Hatshepsut temple?
Naturally, the first question that comes to mind is where exactly is the temple of Hatshepsut. The queen Hatshepsut temple is located in upper Egyp, more accurately the Beautiful city of Luxor. Located beneath the cliffs of al Deir el Bahari on the west bank of the Nile near the valley of the kings and located next to the equally important mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II,

When was it built?

It is believed that the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut in the time of the eighteenth dynasty more specifically in the ruling time of the female Pharoah Hatshepsut. The Reign of Queen Hatshepsut is as magnificent as the temple itself, daughter of Thutmose one and coming to power due to the young age of her half brother, Thutmose III and was named as regent until Thutmose reached the adequate age to Rule. Nonetheless, her reign was one of the most prosperous and peaceful eras in Egypt,

At first glance, the Valley of the Kings, also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, seems like no more than a sun-blasted gorge of generic red rock, but underneath all of its dust lay the tombs of 63 of the most important pharaohs in the history of Ancient Egypt. Used as a burial chamber for nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th century BC, the Valley of the Kings was used for royal burials for the Kings, their families, and their possessions. In 1979, it became a World Heritage Site, as well as the rest of the Theban Necropolis.

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