Dozens of villagers from Qarnat Marai in Luxor closed on Sunday the Valley of the Queens and Deir al-Madina, both of which are the sites of pharaonic tombs, to protest local officials' failure to provide them with land promised in compensation for being evacuated from their homes for archaeological excavations.
The protesters accused local officials of nepotism, saying they only gave out land to acquaintances and others who had no property claims.
Protesters filed a police complaint against local officials accusing them of deliberately delaying their compensations.
