{"id":230344,"date":"2010-01-26T02:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-3654273741691052139"},"modified":"2010-01-26T02:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T07:43:00","slug":"feature-servants-in-the-place-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/230344","title":{"rendered":"Feature: Servants in the Place of Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heritage Key<\/a> (Malcolm Jack)<\/p>\n

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For almost 500 years \u2013 from the 16th to 11th century BC \u2013 tombs, many of the elaborate and ornate, were constructed in the Valley of the Kings for the rulers and powerful nobles of the Egyptian New Kingdom. Needless to say, the civilization\u2019s top dogs didn\u2019t roll up their sleeves and do the work themselves. So who did?<\/p>\n

Like the pyramids, the tombs of the Valley of the Kings were built by skilled labourers and artisans, who came to the site in the Theban Mountains every day from Deir el-Medina, a specially-built village that lay just south of the valley within easy walking distance. Founded at the earliest during the reign of Thutmosis I (c. 1506-1493 BC) Deir el-Medina\u2019s ancient name was Set Maat which translates as \u201cThe Place of Truth\u201d. The workmen themselves were known as \u201cServants in the Place of Truth\u201d.<\/p>\n

They were a mixture of Egyptians, Nubians and Asiatics from across the kingdom, each free citizens. The artisans were middle-class and among the most skilled stone-cutters, plasterers, architects and alike in Egypt. Supporting them was a team of manual workers \u2013 water-carriers and cooks \u2013 as well as their wives and families, and those involved in the administration and decoration of the tombs and temples. The artisans would be organised into two groups: gangs on left and right, who worked almost like a ship\u2019s crew simultaneously on opposite sides of the tomb, while being overseen by a foreman.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heritage Key (Malcolm Jack) For almost 500 years \u2013 from the 16th to 11th century BC \u2013 tombs, many of the elaborate and ornate, were constructed in the Valley of the Kings for the rulers and powerful nobles of the Egyptian New Kingdom. Needless to say, the civilization\u2019s top dogs didn\u2019t roll up their sleeves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}