Deir el-Medina
Deir el-Medina, or Dayr al-Madīnah, is an ancient Egyptian workmen's village which was home to the artisans who worked on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings during the 18th to 20th Dynasties of the New Kingdom of Egypt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient Egyptian village in the Valley of the Kings
- Also known as: “Set Maat” and “Valley of the Artisans”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Valley of the Kings and TT359 Inherkha.
Valley of the Kings
The Valley of the Kings is an Egyptian archaeological locality in the hills immediately behind the West Bank of Luxor. As such, it is one of the most remarkable archaeological destinations in the world - the burial place of most of the pharaohs of Egypt of the New Kingdom.
TT359 Inherkha
Cemetery
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Theban Tomb TT359, also referred to as the Tomb of Inherkhau, is located in Deir el-Medina, part of the Theban Necropolis, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite to Luxor.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include El-Assasif and Luxor.
El-Assasif
Village
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El-Assasif is a necropolis near Luxor on the West Bank at Thebes, Egypt, Upper Egypt. It is located in the dry bay that leads up to Deir el-Bahari and south of the necropolis of Dra' Abu el-Naga'.
Luxor
Photo: Blalonde, Public domain.
Luxor is a city in Upper Egypt. Luxor had a population of 284,952 in 2023, with an area of 43.0 km2 and is the capital of the Luxor Governorate. Nicknamed the City of a Hundred Gates or the City of the Sun, formerly known as Thebes.
East Bank
Photo: Belmahdy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The East Bank of Luxor is the central part of Luxor township, centred on the twin foci of the Temple of Luxor and the Temple of Karnak.
Deir el-Medina
- Categories: human settlement, necropolis, cultural heritage, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Qena Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Deir el-Medina” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دير المدينة”
- Basque: “Deir el-Medina”
- Belarusian: “Дэйр эль-Медына”
- Catalan: “Dayr al-Madīna”
- Catalan: “Deir al-Madinah”
- Catalan: “Deir al-Medinah”
- Catalan: “Deir el Medina”
- Catalan: “Deir el-Medina”
- Catalan: “Necròpolis de deir al Madinah”
- Catalan: “Necròpolis de Deir al-Madinah”
- Catalan: “Necròpolis deir al Madinah”
- Catalan: “Necròpolis Deir al-Madinah”
- Cebuano: “Deir el-Medina”
- Chinese: “德尔麦地那”
- Chinese: “德爾麥地那”
- Czech: “Dér el-Medína”
- Danish: “Deir el Medina”
- Danish: “Deir el-Medina”
- Dutch: “Deir el-Medina”
- Dutch: “Deir el-Medineh”
- Dutch: “Vallei der ambachtslieden”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دير المدينة”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دير المدينه”
- Esperanto: “Deir el-Medina”
- Finnish: “Deir El Medina”
- Finnish: “Deir el-Medina”
- French: “Deir al-Médîna”
- French: “Deïr el-Médina”
- French: “Deir el-Médineh”
- Galician: “Deir el-Medina”
- German: “Dair al-Madīna”
- German: “Deir el-Madīna”
- German: “Deir el-Medina”
- German: “Deir el-Medine”
- German: “Deir el-Medineh”
- Greek: “Deir el-Medina”
- Greek: “Ντέιρ ελ-Μεντίνα”
- Hebrew: “דיר אל מדינה”
- Hebrew: “דיר אל-מדינה”
- Hindi: “देइर अल-मदीना”
- Hungarian: “Dejr el-Medina”
- Hungarian: “Szet Maat”
- Indonesian: “Dayr al-Madinah”
- Indonesian: “Deir el-Medina”
- Italian: “Deir el Medina”
- Italian: “Deir el-Medina”
- Italian: “Luogo della Verità”
- Italian: “Valle degli Artigiani”
- Japanese: “デール・エル・メディーナ”
- Japanese: “デイル・エル・メディーナ”
- Japanese: “デイル・エル＝メディナ”
- Latin: “Deir el-Medina”
- Lithuanian: “Deir el Medina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Deir al-Madinah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Deir el-Medina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Deir-al-Madinah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Deir-el-Medineh”
- Norwegian: “Deir-el-Medineh”
- Polish: “Deir el-Medina”
- Portuguese: “Deir Almedina”
- Portuguese: “Deir el Medina”
- Portuguese: “Deir el-Medina”
- Russian: “Дейр эль-Медина”
- Russian: “Дейр эль-Мединэ”
- Russian: “Дейр-эль-Медина”
- Russian: “Дейр-эль-Мединэ”
- Russian: “Сет-Маат”
- Serbian: “Деир ел Медина”
- Slovenian: “Deir el Medina”
- Slovenian: “Deir el-Medina”
- Slovenian: “Dolina obrtnikov”
- Spanish: “Deir el Medina”
- Spanish: “Deir el-Medina”
- Spanish: “Lugar de la Verdad”
- Spanish: “Set Maat”
- Swedish: “Deir al-Madinah”
- Swedish: “Deir el Medina”
- Swedish: “Deir el-Medineh”
- Swedish: “Deir-el-Medineh”
- Tamil: “தேர் அல்-மதினா”
- Turkish: “Set Maat”
- Ukrainian: “Дейр-ель-Медіна”
- Urdu: “دیر مدینہ”
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