Egypt
- Restoration Of St Catherine's Monastery
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With photos. After six months of feasibility studies, the library at St. Catherine's Monastery in the southern Sinai Peninsula will be restored and developed to meet international standards. According to Minister of...
- 4th Century Bible Online
Egypt Daily Star News Thanks to Mark Morgan for pointing out that the above link was pointing to the wrong place entirely! I have now corrected it and it goes straight to the article. One of the world's oldest Bibles, the Codex Sinaiticus, discovered...
- Restoration Of St Catherine's Mosaic
These are snippets from the Egyptian Gazette - I had forgotten when I found them, yesterday, that the EG doesn't archive its past news items, so I'm afraid that the URLs are no longer valid. If you click on them, another story entirely comes up....
- Exhibition: More Re Sinai At The Getty
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/20/news/raacat.php"Mount Sinai in Egypt is perhaps best known as the site where Moses encountered the burning bush and received the Ten Commandments. But also in this desolate desert landscape, Justinian, the Byzantine...
- The Restoration Of St. Anthony's Monastery
The eight year restoration of the 1600 year old Christian monastery St. Anthony's has recently been completed. The restorations to the monastery have been extensive including a tower, two churches and the monks quarters. The monastery was founded...
Egypt
St. Catherine's monastery seeks permanence through technology
Egypt Independent (James Purtill)
St. Catherine’s Monastery is going digital. The monastery that claims to be the oldest in the world — not destroyed, not abandoned in 17 centuries — has begun digitizing its ancient manuscripts for the use of scholars. A new library to facilitate the process is about five years away.
The librarian, Father Justin, says the monastery’s library will grow an internet database of first-millennium manuscripts, which up until now have been kept under lock and key. Should a scholar want a manuscript, they need only email Father Justin.
“And if I don’t have book but see a reference, I can email a friend in Oxford. They can scan and send it the next day,” he says.
Still, as natural and inevitable as it sounds, that’s quite the sea change. Just 10 years ago, bad phone lines made it hard to connect a call with the monastery. One hundred years ago, it took 10 days to travel from Suez with a caravan of camels.
- Restoration Of St Catherine's Monastery
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With photos. After six months of feasibility studies, the library at St. Catherine's Monastery in the southern Sinai Peninsula will be restored and developed to meet international standards. According to Minister of...
- 4th Century Bible Online
Egypt Daily Star News Thanks to Mark Morgan for pointing out that the above link was pointing to the wrong place entirely! I have now corrected it and it goes straight to the article. One of the world's oldest Bibles, the Codex Sinaiticus, discovered...
- Restoration Of St Catherine's Mosaic
These are snippets from the Egyptian Gazette - I had forgotten when I found them, yesterday, that the EG doesn't archive its past news items, so I'm afraid that the URLs are no longer valid. If you click on them, another story entirely comes up....
- Exhibition: More Re Sinai At The Getty
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/20/news/raacat.php"Mount Sinai in Egypt is perhaps best known as the site where Moses encountered the burning bush and received the Ten Commandments. But also in this desolate desert landscape, Justinian, the Byzantine...
- The Restoration Of St. Anthony's Monastery
The eight year restoration of the 1600 year old Christian monastery St. Anthony's has recently been completed. The restorations to the monastery have been extensive including a tower, two churches and the monks quarters. The monastery was founded...