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Deir el-Medina (Workers' Village)

6 AM – 5 PM140 EGP (foreign visitor, approximate — verify on-site)

Galerie

Painted tomb ceiling at Deir el-Medina showing falcon-headed Re and baboon beside sacred solar discs

Vaulted tomb ceiling painted with solar barque, hieroglyphs and deities in Deir el-Medina artisans' tomb

Fragmentary tomb fresco of Deir el-Medina artisans and mourners on ochre background with figures in white linen

Tomb painting depicting Deir el-Medina workmen carrying baskets, sawing wood and hauling loads

Architectural diagram of a typical Deir el-Medina village house showing room layout and domestic features

Painted ceiling of Deir el-Medina tomb showing celestial goddesses embracing the deceased among hieroglyphs

Richly painted vaulted burial chamber at Deir el-Medina with hieroglyph-filled ceiling and funerary scenes

Tomb painting of Anubis tending a mummy on a bier framed by dense hieroglyphic columns

Sunlit pillared court of the Ptolemaic Hathor temple at Deir el-Medina with carved reliefs

Interior sanctuary of the Hathor temple at Deir el-Medina with carved walls and painted ceiling

Stone foundations of the Deir el-Medina artisans' village set in the Theban desert valley

Modern village houses on the Theban hillside near Deir el-Medina with limestone cliffs behind

Detail of painted Hathor column capital and decorated ceiling inside the Deir el-Medina temple

Aerial view of Deir el-Medina village nestled between palm groves and the Theban mountains

Aerial view of the walled Hathor temple precinct surrounded by ruined artisan houses at Deir el-Medina

Aerial view of the grid of mudbrick house foundations forming the Deir el-Medina workers' village

Painted relief corridor in the Hathor temple at Deir el-Medina showing pharaoh making offerings to gods

Öffnungszeiten

6 AM – 5 PM

Eintrittspreis

140 EGP (foreign visitor, approximate — verify on-site)