The first pool in Islamic civilization was discovered by chance in an archaeological site in Cairo, said Ayman Abdel Mona'm the director of the Old Cairo upgrading project.

An archaeological mission restoring the palace of Prince Taz, found the pool underneath the building, Mona'm added.

The palace recovery is part of his project to upgrade Old Cairo, where water cisterns were also found from time to time, during other restoration operations.

[Source], Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, February 12, 2005.

Supreme Council of Antiquities SCA Secretary-General Zahi Hawass said a bill law has been prepared for combating the antiques stealing which includes harshening the penalty for deterring the antiques thieves.

He, moreover, added that the SCA will hire high-trained guards to help prevent the stealing of the artifacts in the International and Arab Organizations Forum for museums in Aswan, the SCA Secretary-General added that his council could restore, in the last three years, more than two thousand artifacts from all the world countries.

On the other hand, the public prosecution is keen on adopting the legal procedures for restoring 57 thousand missing artifacts that were smuggled abroad by ten defendants who are accused in the case of robbing and smuggling the antiques and will be put into trial today.

[Source], Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, February 12, 2005.