before getting back to the relationship with Hepshetsut and Amarna, and a possible corrupt time line, I am building a picture in my mind of the West Bank. it is that of a busy industrial type complex ?
Industry being relative to the times they were living in.
Goods and farm produce moved about by canal boats, and perhaps during building of temples wide bottom barges to move quarried stone about during the flood to get it close as possible to the building site.
I dont think it is true that the West Bank was for the dead, and the East bank for the living, as I feel there will have been many farmers and craftsmen working and living on the West Bank.
Perhaps the East Bank was the equivalent of London or the Home counties where the more prosperous people lived ? The Workers got to be close to their work as usual.
The canals were the equivalent of our side roads and the Nile a big Motorway, but also the canals were veins of life running into the desert.
Perhaps the Green belt that extends today form the Nile to the desert was much much wider than it is today. ? Irrigation is the key to that, so in effect what these people managed to achieve was the conversion of a desert into workable and liveable land. ?
if not, then they were living in an already lush savannah, and something bad happened and the desert took over. maybe the Black sea deluge ?
Deploying Ram pumps could significantly increase the range of irrigation without the use of canals, and even take water up into the mountains.
If we could do that today, we could extend the habitat of mankind by a considerable amount, have a good simple life and feed the world. Even create huge lakes and encourage greenery to grow, that would eventually start off a small micro climate that would make the desert a self sustaining savannah and forests. Wow...
Ok, brain dump over....
Ram Pumps....
but if not then Archimedes screws made out of hollowed out tree trunks... 
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