![]() ![]() There was a wall surrounding their houses and only one gate for entering or leaving the community. ![]() The village, today called Deir-el-Medina, was a tightly-controlled community. Family members would be sent at various times of the day to bring food to them. It was a long walk from the village, up one side of the ridge and then down the other into the Valley, so sometimes they spent the night in temporary circular stone huts near where they worked. The workmen who built the tombs in the Valley of the Kings had lived in a village on the far side of a very high ridge on the other side of the Valley. The first order of business was to clear away the ancient workmen's huts. Finally, he was working at the undisturbed triangle of land just below the tomb of Ramesses VI. On 1 November 1922, Carter began what he knew might be his last season of excavation. Patty (CC BY-NC-ND) Discovery in Valley of the Kings ![]()
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