Workers on the excavation and restoration team, working on the limestone cliffs outside Luxor

Workers, part of the restoration and excavation team, working on the tombs on limestone hills outside Luxor. This is an active and ongoing effort to find more ruins, more tombs, with the prize being the tomb of another pharaoh, or that of a noble from the time of the pharaohs.
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