News from the Valley of the Kings

This is a rare update from 2011 on the work of the Finnish team on the excavations at the workman's huts in the Theban Hills above the Valley of the Kings, mostly by way of new photographs by Heidu Kontkanen.  Not all the news is good:

From our modern perspective, it is upsetting to see how the village was first excavated and then left to be destroyed. Passers-by have used the huts as dumps and rest rooms,” says Docent Jaana Toivari- Viitala, who heads the first-ever research project managed by Finns in Egypt.