Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni said Friday June 2^nd that a research mission has discovered the remnants of a two-room house dating back to the era of Salaheddin El-Ayoubi and a single golden dinar of the same age in Al-Shaboul district of Daqahliya governorate.

 

On his part, Zahi Hawas, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told  reporters that the dinar is of a great scientific and historical value.

 

Old as it is, the coin gains its importance being of the Ayoubi age when minting gold money was a rarity. The names of leader Salaheddin El-Ayoubi and Abbasid Calif  Abul-Abbas Ahmed (575-622 AH) are engraved on the dinar.