Today Friday was a day off for all our team members. Considering the excitement of the first weekend in Luxor and the arrival of the high temperatures, our members planned three possible options to profit from their day off. Some members thought that archaeology, conservation, and epigraphy should be replaced for a few hours with leisure and fun in the swimming pool. Because of this, the group decided to spend its day off in a swimming pool spending some hours in the water and the sun loungers of the Hilton Luxor Hotel.

Another group contemplated the idea of paying a visit to the temple of Karnak without sacrificing a good afternoon in the swimming pool with the other colleagues. Thus, they conducted their visit to the complex of Amun in Karnak early in the morning so that they could enjoy the examination of the textual and iconographic programs of a theological movement that would make it at national level.

A third group of team members decided to stay at the Marsam Hotel catching up with delayed tasks or trying to get on with their plans; in the afternoon, some of them spent some time in the temple of Ramses III at Medinet Habu. At the end, they enjoyed a cold lemonade and the amazing company of the owners of Café Maratonga in front of the temple.

In the end, it was a great day for relaxing and preparing the coming work; this week will be full of intensive work and many surprises as one can expect from such an enigmatic place as the Theban necropolis.