Stone Hydration

Historical Monuments of Cairo suffer lots from the hydration for the last 50 years; due to multiple reasons that were tougher than the efforts made to find solutions. I had personally worked on it in my early professional years; with lots of guidance from a leading preservation expert; Professor Lamie.. 
Lamie’s legacy is based on deep scientific referrals that allows for simple sustainable solutions rather than complicated uncertain ones.. This were fit to deal with the Egyptian limestone that had some unique features and specifications.. In many cases, the simple solutions were successful; while great failure happens at few others.. The bureaucracy did not allow Lamie to turn the exercises into an advanced academic research effort, as how  the global experience did and continues to do..
Despite the fact that preservation and restoration is a scientific discipline, yet many claimants with no proven experience had discovered ways to add to the catastrophe. Therefore the Egyptian monuments continue to deteriorate, decay and maybe sink.. The ill-coordination among civic authorities and bodies had added lots on agony to the dilemma. Without coordination, a team would unintentionally break the tense effort of another..
One of the direct reasons is the corruption within the guardian authorities, which have systems that allows for improper procurement of professional services.. Many incompetent claimants had been awarded critical jobs with greater funds.. If failure or no progress happens, a cliche stamp of force-mojeure is ready to close the files..
One of the funny interpretations that Egypt has a great treasures of historical and immovable monuments that mostly have no proper inventories. If one is lost or collapsed, others still fighting to stand and attract visitors..!