Ancient Lives: Story of the Pharaoh's Tombmakers

More than 3000 years ago a village was established at Thebes on the west bank of the Nile. Situated amid a barren landscape are housed the workers who created the tombs of the pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings. This book reconstructs their quarrels and rivalries, sickness and health, marriages and deaths, and the effects of flood, pillage and war with an inspired imagination.