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Deir el-Medina: western half of artisans' town
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View of west half of Deir el-Medina.
Deir el-Medina, built in the reign of Thutmose I (1524-1518 BC) on the west bank of the Nile, housed generations of craftsworkers and their families who built and decorated the tombs of the Pharaohs in the nearby Valley of the Kings in the 18th-20th Dynasties.
The village was laid out in a rectangular plan inside of a brick enclosure, whose western and northern walls are shown in the photo. A series of rectangular mud-brick houses were laid out along parallel streets. The residential area at Deir el-Medina was first excavated by Flinders Petrie in the 1880s-90s.
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