Mount Sinai

The administration and monks of Saint Catherine's Monastery, the world's oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery, in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, are expressing cautious optimism over a court decision expected on January 23 in a nearly decade-long legal process concerning the ownership of its facilities and declared properties. 

It was hidden behind a medieval parchment from the Monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai

It’s at the Greek Orthodox Holy Monastery of St. Catherine in Egypt & reveals the proximity to the Greco-Roman art heritage

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 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.