Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Egypt Day Four Valley of the Kings, Nobles and workers

On day four we visited several sites, The Valley of the Kings, the Valley of the Nobles, and the Valley of the workers, who built, sculpted and painted the tombs of the kings and nobles, called Deir el Medina, Queen Hatsepshut temple, Colossi Memnon, and mortuary temple of Ramses III called Medinet Habu.






Top four pictures in Valley of the Kings.  This last picture shows a crew restoring one of the areas.  I was told that they do not repaint the pictures, but brush the dust off of them only.

Queen Hatshepsut's Temple (above and below) with our guide, Rafit, a PhD Egyptologist, very knowledgeable and helped us learn to read hieroglyphs and understand the Egyptian gods.





Note the statues behind us





Below is one of the Noble's burial places

Below:  Valley of the Workers
We saw carvings and paintings in their dwellings, but the ceilings we lower and the rooms smaller.  The paintings and carvings were simpler.  The workers had to do their own places in their spare time.



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