Mount Sinai
Lost star catalogue of Hipparchus found in the Egypt
It was hidden behind a medieval parchment from the Monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai
The oldest depiction of Jesus Christ and of the Crucifixion is located in Mount Sinai Monastery
It’s at the Greek Orthodox Holy Monastery of St. Catherine in Egypt & reveals the proximity to the Greco-Roman art heritage
Greek team digitizing ancient Christian manuscripts at Sinai monastery
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 bathed in green light.
Egypt’s ancient Sinai library reopened
Egypt has reopened 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 Sinai.
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