A team of researchers is creating the first digitized archive of manuscripts from St. Catherine's Monastery in Egypt's Sinai peninsula. The aim is to preserve the heritage housed in ...

Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula was preparing to transcribe a book of the Bible in Arabic and needed fresh parchment. New parchment was an expensive commodity at the time and ...

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Archaeologists in Egypt Uncover a Well-Preserved Mummy Wearing Gold and Blue Sky God Mask Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed an ancient sarcophagus that contained a well-preserved mummy wrapped in ...

Gunmen on Friday opened fire on two buses carrying Christians near the Monastery of St Samuel the ... Christians make up around 10 percent of Egypt's 97 million predominantly Muslim population.

Late in the fourth century, a group of seven monks from a Jerusalem monastery went on a sightseeing trip to Egypt. But this ...

In a sixth-century Egyptian monastery’s library, high-tech imaging of parchments reveals thousands of pages of hidden text. This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic ...