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In 1998 an Egyptian government organisation known as the Supreme Council of Antiquities devised a “Project for the Development of Historical Cairo”. The objective of this most extensive programme in the history of Egyptian conservation consists of preserving the Old Town historical complex, included onto the UNESCO World Heritage List. The project envisages pertinent research and documentation as well as the conservation of Arabian and Coptic monuments, their adaptation for contemporary purposes together with a regulation of town planning development within Historical Cairo. The work is to be carried out by eight Egyptian conservation firms co-working with their more experienced European counterparts. Despite multiple obstacles, it has been possible to perform even such difficult and challenging tasks as the conservation of transfers of murals from the Sitt Wasilli Hous.