Daily Life Along the Nile in Ancient Egypt, 1550-1350 BCE | Calm Bedtime History

It is the year 1450 before the common era, in the reign of Thutmose III. The Nile has begun to swell at Elephantine, its waters brown with silt carried from the mountains of Ethiopia. In the village of Deir el-Medina, on the west bank at Thebes, a tomb painter named Kha wakes before dawn to walk the path to the Valley of the Kings, where he will work by lamplight on the burial chamber of a pharaoh who has not yet died.