The Incredible Craftsmen Who Made The Egyptian Tombs | Our History

The first programme introduces the village of Deir El Medina, the village of the craftsmen who made the royal tombs in The Valley Of The Kings. John Romer explains how it is that we have such detailed record of their everyday lives. Through the tombs they painted, the graffiti they scribbled and the notes they wrote on stone it is possible to build up a picture of how ordinary people lived in ancient Egypt. This programme explains how the village fitted into the life of ancient Thebes-then the capital of Egypt. The programme visits Tutankhamun's tomb in the valley of the kings and his gold mask in the Cairo museum, the temple of Deir El Bahari considered by many to be the most beautiful of all the Egyptian temples and the village tomb of Ipy.

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