Tombs in Thebes, Valley of the Workers

Valley workers is the location of an entire village of artisans and workers who work on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and perhaps the valley of the nobles. Small and modest houses are full against the glass in the streets of this small valley, and construction workers and decorated graves here. This is the cemetery Deir el-Medina.
Some of the graves are small, sharply above the pyramids, and all decorated. Only four are open, but the quality of work and shows that specialized artists, and put a lot of effort to decorate the small family cemeteries as they did for the glory of Pharaoh, which worked.
TT     Name     Position     Reign
1     Sennedjem     Crew member     19th Dynasty

2     Jabehenet     Crew member    Ramesses II

3     Pashedu     Crew member. Owner of tomb 326     Ramesses
4     Ken     Chiseller. Owner of tomb 337     Ramesses II

5     Neferaabet     Crew member    Ramesses
6     Neferhotep and his son Nubnefer     Overseer    Horemheb to Ramesses II

7     Ramose     Writer. Owner of tomb 212 and 250     Ramesses II

8     Ja     Head in the Great place     Amenhotep II, Thutmes IV, Amenhotep III

9     Amenmose     Crew member. Charmer of Scorpions     Ramesses
10     Penbuy And Kasa     Crew members    Ramesses II

210     Raueben     Crew member    19th Dynasty

211     Paneb     Crew member of the Gentleman of Two Territories    19th Dynasty

212     Ramose     See tomb 7     Ramesses II

213     Penamon     Crew member of the Gentleman of the Two Earth    20th Dynasty

214     Jaui     Guard, Crew member of Amun in Luxor     Ramesses
215     Amenemopet          19th Dynasty

216     Neferhotep     Overseer     Ramesses II-Seti II

217     Ipuy          Ramesses II

218     Amenajt     Crew member in the West of Thebes     Ramesses
219     Nebenmaat     Crew member in the West of Thebes    Ramesses
220     Jaemteri     Crew member    Ramesses
250     Ramose     See tomb 7     Ramesses II

265     Amenemopet     See tomb 215    19th Dynasty

266     Amennajt     Head Craftsman of the Gentleman of Two Territories     19th Dynasty

267     It Has     Molder of the Images of All the Gods in the House of Gold     19th Dynasty

268     Familiar Tomb Of NEBNAJT     Crew member    19th Dynasty

290     Irunefer     Crew member    Ramesses
291     And A NEJTMIN     Crew member    End dynasty XVIII
292     Pashedu     Crew member    Seti I to Ramesses II

298     Baki and his father Unnefer     Overseer of the Place of the Truth and father (possible) of Unnefer    Ramesses
299     Inherkau     Overseer of the Gentleman of Two Territories . Owner of tomb 359     Ramesses III and IV

321     Jaemopet     Crew member    Ramesses
322     Penshenabu     Crew member     Ramesses
323     Peshedu     Draftsman of Amun    Seti I

325     POSSIBLY SMEN (In Cones)     ------------------     Dynasty XVIII
326     Pashedu     Overseer. See tomb 3     Ramesses
327     Turobay     Crew member    Ramesses
328     It Has     Crew member     20th Dynasty

329     Mose And Mose And Ipy     Two Mose. One grandson of the other with annexed tomb, and Ipy its son.    Ramesses
330     Karo     Crew member    19th Dynasty

335     Nejtamon     Priest of Amenhotep I    19th Dynasty

336     Neferronpet     Crew member     19th Dynasty

337     Ken     Chiseller. Usurped by Esjons (dynasty 21-22). See tomb 4     Ramesses II

338     May     Draftsman of Amun    End dynasty XVIII
339     Huy And Pashedu     Crew member of the Place of Verdad and Pashedu    Ramesses II

340     Amenemhat     Crew member    Principles Dynasty XVIII
354     possibly Amenemhet     possibly owner of tomb 340.     Principles Dynasty XVIII
355     Possibly Amenpahapy     Crew member    Dynasty XX
356     Amenemuia     Crew member    19th Dynasty

357     Dyehutyhirmaktuf     Crew member     19th Dynasty

359     Inherkau     See tomb 299     Ramesses III and IV
360     Kaha     Overseer    Ramesses II

361     Huy     Great carpenter    Seti I


People in labor camps, builders and painters and sculptors who worked on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens. Men who work in the cemeteries were not slaves - who were government employees were paid well and provides them with food and supplies. Their families living here in the city with them. These positions are often hereditary, so that generation after generation of workers living here.
T stayeda cemetery workers for a period of 10 days, then returned to their families here in the city. They are not allowed to have contact with people on the east bank - in fact, prevented from leaving the village here because he knew the secrets of the grave.
The narrow streets - some of them only 2-3 meters wide - wind through the labyrinthine collection of houses. Small houses were often the stairs to the surface, although the terms of the hard to imagine something like this town.
Just up the hill from a small town is the hill where workers built their graves with their hands. These are usually small, but it was beautifully decorated. Artists often did their best work in their own graves. To the north a little bit more of the village is a small temple, with a wall fence, a kind of miniature temple.
We went to some of the graves (Peshedu and Sennedjem), but we were told that the pictures are not allowed.