Saint Catherine's Monastery is the oldest continuously-functioning library and Christian monastery in the world. Located at the base of Mount Sinai in Egypt, the monastery was built by orders of ...

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Egypt reopened on Saturday an ancient library which holds thousands of centuries-old religious and historical manuscripts at the famed St. Catherine Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in South ...

The UCLA Library has just received a massive grant and they intend on digitizing 1,100 rare and unique Syriac and Arabic manuscripts dating from the fourth to the 17th centuries. The three-year ...

ST. CATHERINE’S, Egypt (AP) — Egypt reopened on Saturday an ancient library which holds thousands of centuries-old religious and historical manuscripts at the famed St. Catherine Monastery, a UNESCO ...

'Codex Syriacus', an ancient copy of the Gospels in Syriac, is seen on display in St. Catherine's Monastery in South Sinai, Egypt. Reuters ST. CATHERINE’S, EGYPT — At St. Catherine’s Monastery at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man stands at St Catherine's Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula. --/dpa St Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in ...

St. Catherine city is the most special and distinguished city in Sinai, and it is the highest inhabited place in Sinai, as it is located on a plateau that rises 1600 meters above sea level, and is ...

Egypt reopened on Saturday an ancient library that's filled with a treasure trove of centuries-old religious and historical manuscripts at St. Catherine Monastery in South Sinai. The ceremony at the ...

ST. CATHERINE’S, EGYPT - (Reuters) - At St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Egypt's Mount Sinai, the silence in the library is broken only by low electrical humming, as an early manuscript is ...