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Ancient Egyptian religion: everything you wanted to know

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The Middle Classes of the Valley of the Kings

Ordinary people have left us some evidence of what they think about. There's a site called Daryl Medina, where the workmen who worked in the Valley of the Kings lived with their families. They're actually a very literate community. And we can see that they actually had time off work to celebrate religious festivals when the great state gods would come out of the temples.

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