What about the workers

Deir El Medina was a village where the workers were allowed to live on the West bank with their families. The workers would build the Royal tombs and were taken to the valley of the kings blindfolded at night, so as not to know the location of the Royal Valley. They would work 9 days of the week and have one day off when they would be returned home by the same means. Egypt had a 10 day week. The 10th day allowed the work force time to build their own tomb. So these tombs still exist and are full of incredible detail and art. We were only allowed in two small tombs that required going down steep steps and semi kneeling inched our way into rooms. They revealed the workers and their families before the Gods. They were expert painters of the God's and thus it seemed to them that if it was good enough for a Pharaoh to be before the Gods, then it was good enough for the decent hardworking Egyptian to expec the same. Sadly no photos again. So we took a view of the village that has been partially restored and left. They were quite nice mudbrick two storey homes with several rooms including a bathroom. Certainly it would be interesting to see a real estate sell one of them.