May the Coptic Art exhibition held in l'Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. Present will be Pope Shenouda and Aly Maher, Egypt Ambassador. The French audience will admire these masterpieces during three months. Palaces, villas and historical buildings to be registered A joined effort between the SCA and IDSC will lead to the registration of all buildings of historical or architectural importance. The information Centre of the Ministerial Council together with the SCA Islamic Department is combining their efforts in order to classify palaces, architecturally important buildings or buildings related to a high ranked person.
Registration is done through computers.
According to Raouf Ismail, Director of the information centre for cultural heritage IDSC, technology will help scholars and researchers to obtain easily any required information. Conservation of the Sphinx Farouk Hosni, Minister of Culture assigned specialists to conserve and preserve constantly the sphinx that has been restored for ten years. Zahi Hawass, the committee responsible is overviewing the constant measure of seismic movements, the detection of wind direction, and the maintenance of the rocks. Mahmoud Mabrouk, Abdel Hamid Kotb and Mostafa Abdel Kader are acting each in his specific domain to keep appropriate maintenance to the Sphinx.