Essays about: "Deir el-Medina"

Found 3 essays containing the words Deir el-Medina.

  1. 1. The Life and Times of Butehamun : Tomb Raider for the High Priest of Amun

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : George Wood; [2020]
    Keywords : Butehamun; Deir el-Medina; Thebes; Egypt; Egyptology; mummies; reburial; caches; Valley of the Kings; biography; Butehamon; Deir el-Medinah; Thebe; Egypten; Egyptologi; mumier; Kungarnas dal; biografi;

    Abstract : This is a biography of the scribe Butehamun. A member of a well-known family who had long lived in the village of Deir el-Medina working on the tombs in the Valley of Kings, Butehamun’s coming of age saw invasion and civil war in Thebes, and the end to the making of new tombs in the Valley, as the New Kingdom came to an end. READ MORE

  3. 2. Finding Butehamun : Scribe of Deir el-Medina

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : George Wood; [2016]
    Keywords : Butehamun; Deir el-Medina; Thebes; Egypt; Egyptology; mummies; reburial; caches; Valley of the Kings; Butehamon; Deir el-Medinah; Egypten; Egyptologi; mummier; Kungarnas dal;

    Abstract : Butehamun was one of the most famous scribes involved in the building of the royal tombs of the Valley of the Kings, and a member of the most illustrious family of scribes there. Butehamun presided over the closure of the Valley and the workers’ village of Deir elMedina, and the move from building new tombs to the preserving and moving (some would say plundering) of the mummies left behind, marking the transition from the New Kingdom to the Third Intermediate Period, as Egypt splintered into what were essentially two realms. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Wine Jars Speak : A text study

    University essay from Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Eva-Lena Wahlberg; [2012]
    Keywords : wine; wine jar; label; shard; wine production; economy; workmen’s village; Ancient Egypt; Amarna; Tutankhamun’s tomb; Deir el-Medina; New Kingdom;

    Abstract : The Wine Jars Speak: A text study. Reworked and translated from a Swedish MA thesis, Vinkärlsetiketterna berättar: En textstudie from 2008 in Egyptology, Uppsala University. This paper examines the texts written on shards from wine jars found at El-Amarna, Tutankhamun’s tomb (KV 62) and Deir el-Medina. READ MORE