Działalność polskich konserwatorów w Marina-El Alamein w 1988 r.

In 1988 a group of conservators from the Zamość branch of the Ateliers for Conservation of Cultural Property (PKZ) began preservation work in Medina, located in northern Egypt. Preliminary studies have shown that the settlement existed between the 3rd cent. B.C. and the 5th cent. A.D. It was a functionally planned settlement of an urban nature - with residential houses, public service buildings, sacral, utility houses and necropolises. The Polish conservators worked on three chosen objects - an underground cistern, the residential house at number 9 and a tombstone. The work was limited to the preparation of a preliminary concept for their restoration, yuided by the principle that the preserved substance needs to be protected first of all, while in the future there would be the possibility of limited reconstruction of the structure for exhibition purposes. The investigated historical objects constitute a small percentage of already discovered objects. All, however, require urgent preservation steps to be taken. If these historical objects are left without any protection, they may be totally destroyed within 2-3 years.