Tag Archives: workers

Jennifer Cromwell Deir el-Medina in western Thebes was home to a community of skilled workers, who were responsible for constructing and decorating the royal tombs of the period, in the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens. One draftsman from the village, Prehotep, perhaps after a particularly hard shift, just wanted toContinue reading “A Stingy Boss and a Lack of Beer”