The Place of Truth

The village was founded by pharaoh Amenhopis the third in the early eighteenth dynasty. It did not solely consist of Egyptian workmen, but was unusually cosmopolitan with over thirty foreign names being found there. This demonstrates the whole point of Set Ma'at: to have the best workmen (regardless of creed) to create the best works of art.

Not only was the village tolerant of other races, but women seem to have been treated well and in a liberally minded fashion too. As their husbands were away working for much of the ten day week, women managed the affairs; many of them could read and write, as we know from evidence of letters they sent and received. There are also records left of female landowners (something only allowed in many modern countries relatively recently when one considers that the Ancient Egyptians allowed it), and of a foreman's wife dishing out the wages to craftsmen during her husbands absence.

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