Nefertari
The Valley of Colours was a source of red and yellow ochre for the ancient Egyptians. The pigment can be found throughout their decoration. The Valley is next to the workers’ village of Deir el-Medina, which literally in Arabic means ‘Monastery of the Town’. All of this forms part of the Theban West Bank, where the dead of the city of Thebes on the east bank of the Nile were buried. Nowadays Thebes is the city of Luxor, which is itself famous for the Luxor and Karnak temples.
