Despite being overlooked by many tourists, Deir EI-Medina is of great historical importance as it was home to the artists and craftsmen who built and ornamented the royal tombs of the rulers of Ancient Egypt!! Most of the pictures above are of the Sennedjem Tomb - the most preserved burial chamber of them all. Sennediem was an artisan who lived in the reign of Sethos I and Ramses II. He held the title "Servant in the Place of Truth", meaning that he worked on the excavation and decoration of the nearby royal tombs de The 3rd picture is of a mural portraying Sennediem and his wife, lyneferti, kneeling before the tree goddess Nut, whose bod is seen merging with the trunk of the sycamore "Tree of Life" as they enter the underworld The Egyptians believed that the goddess would emerge from a sycamore when their souls rested in the tree's shade, and would give them nourishment and water, as you can see The 6th picture is of the end wall depicting Sennedjem's perception of his afterlife; as a farmer harvesting corn and growing fruit in an orchard, accompanied all along by his faithful wife His view of heaven makes it all the more powerful when you realize that he had spent his entire life living in the arid desert.