At the foot of Mount Sinai, in the shadow of the place where the Old Testament recounts that Moses received the Ten Commandments from God, there rests one of the most enduring monuments of Christian ...

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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 ...

In the sixth century, Christian monks built St. Catherine's Monastery in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. The monastery is believed to be located at the very place where God appeared to Moses via a burning ...

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 ...

When conducting historical research in the field of Japanese history, it is common practice to use ancient documents which remain throughout the country. Conversely, the medieval Islamic world has not ...

Saint Catherine's Monastery, 6th century (UNESCO World Heritage List, 2002), Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. (CAIRO) — Gunmen attacked security forces near St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s south Sinai on ...

The monastery's council of monks appointed Papadopoulos following an election held on 14 September. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greece's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexandra Papadopoulou, ...

Security stops Sinai assault on St. Catherine and its biblical library, but symbolism matters more. Two weeks after killing 47 Egyptians in twin church bombings on Palm Sunday, the Islamic State ...

Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian court ruled last week that it sat on state-owned land. Dating back to the ...