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Who Actually Built the Royal Tombs in the Valley of the Kings? - The Recorded History of the Servants in the Place of Truth | Sleepy Facts About History
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The grand royal tombs of the Valley of the Kings were not built by anonymous slaves laboring under undifferentiated oppression. They were created by a community of skilled artisans living in a walled desert village called Deir el-Medina. This episode examines the extraordinary documentary record these workers left behind on flakes of limestone and broken pottery to reconstruct their daily routines, their family disputes, and the state ration system that kept them alive.
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