Ahram Online16d
Orthodox Parliamentary Assembly delegation visits St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt
A delegation of 47 parliamentarians from 10 countries visited St. Catherine’s Monastery, where they met with Dr. Khaled ...
Yahoo23d
Sacred Anchor, Evolving Artifact
by Constantin von Tischendorf at St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Desert. This tale, steeped in colonial intrigue, involves Tischendorf’s controversial claim that monks were burning ...
Rochester Institute of Technology15d
Cultural Artifact and Document Imaging
the erased and overwritten palimpsests at St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai; Les Échéz d’Amours, a manuscript damaged by the Allied bombing raids upon Dresden in 1945; and the c. 1491 world map by ...
Greek City Times25d
Oldest depiction of Jesus and the Crucifixion is found in Greek Orthodox St. Catherine Monastery, Egypt
The oldest icon of Jesus Christ and the Crucifixion is in St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, Egypt, from the 8th Century. As we know, the early Byzantine and post-Byzantine paintings continue the ...
Egyptian Streets11d
Best Day Trips from Cairo, Hurghada, and Sharm El Sheikh
Imagine starting your morning sipping coffee by the Red Sea, and by afternoon standing at the foot of the mighty Karnak ...
Tribune Chronicle26d
Upton House hosts lecture
They also learned Arabic and Greek, and in 1892, made it to St. Catherine’s Monastery at Sinai, where they discovered a Syriac manuscript. Thanks to one of the sisters’ discoveries ...
Greek Reporter26d
The Greek Church That May Hold the Oldest Crucifixion Icon
The Greek Orthodox Holy Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai is believed to house the oldest icon depicting the crucifixion of Christ. St. Catherine’s icon of the crucifixion of Christ The icon ...