The Supreme Council of Antiquities employees closed the temple of Abydos in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag and closed all storage units that maintain the museum Tuesday, in solidarity with archeologists striking across Egypt. The Temple of Abydos is the seventh archeological site to be closed down by council employees protesting against the Council's lack of response to their demands. Other monuments that were closed include the Nubian Museum in Aswan, Abu Simbel, Wadi el-Sebou, and museums near Lake Nasser. In exclusive statements to “Youm7,” a striker working in the security unit of the Council in Sohag who prefers to remain anonymous said that the strikes would not cease until all Council employees were given permanent contracts. He emphasized that a number of their co-workers showed solidarity with them by closing several storage units containing thousands of precious artifacts, in the governorates of Fayoum, Luxor, Aswan, and Cairo.