The 1,000-year-old dome of a mausoleum in Aswan’s Fatimid cemetery was severely damaged Monday [February 9th, 2015] after a derrick fell on it during nearby construction, said head of Islamic and Coptic Monuments Dept. at the antiquities ministry Mohamed Abdel Latif. In a phone call with al-Mehwar TV channel, Abdel Latif said the boom of a derrick, working in the neighboring area where the Aswan International Sculpture Symposium is being held, “malfunctioned and fell causing damage to the southern part of the fence surrounding the Maadawi dome mausoleum along with half of the dome’s top.”

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