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Daily life in Ancient Egypt is brought vividly alive by writer and Egyptologist John Romer in this intimate documentary series. More than 3000 years ago a village was established at Thebes on the West Bank of the Nile. Situated amid a barren and arid landscape, it housed the workers who created the tombs of the pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings. Stonemasons, painters, sculptors, quarrymen and scribes lived with their wives and children in the village and worked closely together in the sacred valley. As well as creating some of the greatest masterworks of ancient art in the royal tombs, they built tombs and chapels for themselves and their families, erected temples for the village gods and wrote prayers and recorded their thoughts on stones and papyri. The study of these ancient records and years of excavation at Deir El Medina and in the Valley of the Kings has enabled Romer to recreate the villagers' lives in the most intimate detail.

This film was first broadcast: 1984

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