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People often ask me, ‘well, it’s not really as exciting as Indiana Jones, now is it?’
I reply, ‘to an archaeologist, yes, it certainly is!’

— Zahi Hawass

Deir el-Medina

A view of the site of Deir el-Medina, on the West Bank of Luxor. Founded in the early 18th Dynasty, this was the site of the village where the workmen lived who constructed the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Visible in the background is the Ptolemaic period temple. (Photo: Martina Minas-Nerpal)

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