Deir el-Medina’s Golden Age (Part 1). In the age of Sety I, the village of the tomb-builders expanded significantly. Likewise, our evidence for daily life, families, households, and business begins to proliferate. Historians can identify individuals from tombs and connect them with specific houses. We can track their movements, as they form relationships, get married, have children, and pass things to their descendants. Written records tell us about the village’s operations, including their funding from the pharaoh’s government. Around 1300 BCE, we stand on the threshold of some truly detailed stories…
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See photos of Deir el-Medina by:
Kairoinfo4u https://flickr.com/photos/manna4u/albums/72157615031342678/
Margaret Lucy Patterson https://flickr.com/photos/24729615@N00/albums/72157625707940536/
Heidi Kontkanen https://flickr.com/photos/plingthepenguin/albums/72157657026077070/
For personal items, including food discovered in tombs, see the collection of the Museo Egizio, Turin (English database).
People and families of Deir el-Medina: Davies, B. G. (1999). Who’s Who at Deir el-Medina: A Prosopographic Study of the Royal Workmen’s Community. Available free from the publisher and author at https://www.nino-leiden.nl/publication/whos-who-at-deir-el-medina and https://www.academia.edu/10955578/Whos_Who_at_Deir_el_Medina.
- Music and interludes by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.net.
- Music and interludes by Luke Chaos www.chaosmusick.com.
- Logo image: The Workman Sennedjem and his wife Iy-Nefret worship the sky goddess Nut, who emerges from a sycamore tree (Photo Chris Ward).
- Intro music: “Silent Hill – Not Tomorrow” harp cover by Maria Halcyon.
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