Deir el Medina

Village artists housing factor of several hundred workers in the Valley of the Kings in the New Kingdom. They and their families live here in small houses of brick for generations - each generation to learn the trade from his father and works in the tombs of the pharaohs.
Very few people, except for reasons and narrow streets. It's like a maze of booths are small, but desriptions people say it was comfortable and prosperous.
It was guarded, of course - not a lot to maintain epople, but to ensure that workers who knew the secrets of tombs in the Valley of Earby will not leave. Although the workers here are technically state prisoners, who were well paid and projected. It was considered a great honor to be chosen to work in temples and tombs of the Pharaoh, so there is no reason to believe that they resented their isolation here.
Of course, every bit precuations words not tommbs and protect the treasures of the Pharaohs. Stolen and looted and often within a few months it was closed - it is clear that elements of the home. Whether the workers were passing on information to his group, or the guards were doing a little more on the side for grave robbing.
Of course, during the era of the family of 20, Egypt was one of serious economic problems (Failde Nile floods and famine devastated the country) and workers who have not paid the traditional beer, onions, wheat, meat or fish. In retaliation, they staged a strike and demonstrated in the city of Luxor, Habu, so they are paid.
Near the village is what seems to be sinking, but our guide told us it was probably in the "garbage pit" of the people. Being drilled, and is found on many pieces of pottery and household items.
It's very interesting to walk around here and imagine what people like in its heyday. Fires for cooking, laundry women and children who play in the courtyards of the houses. It would have been of colors - sand away from the pale, monochrome has now taken.