St. Catherine's Monastery, Egypt

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No guide, no Gebel Musa, St. Catherine
No guide, no Gebel Musa
Jun 22, 2008

... or by making the climb around 3 a.m.  We decided we didn't want to do either of these things and made our way to the monastery around 4 p.m.  As we came to the entrance of the park we were informed by a guard that we had to pay 85 pounds for a ...

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Fragment from world's oldest Bible found hidden in Egyptian monastery
Posted on Oct 1, 2009, 05:41:01
... Sinaiticus, which dates from about AD350, as he was trawling through photographs of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine's Monastery in Egypt. The Codex, handwritten in Greek on animal skin, is the earliest known version of the Bible. Leaves ...
Fragment from world's oldest Bible found hidden in Egyptian monastery
Posted on Oct 1, 2009, 06:31:11
... Sinaiticus, which dates from about AD350, as he was trawling through photographs of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine's Monastery in Egypt. The Codex, handwritten in Greek on animal skin, is the earliest known version of the Bible. Leaves ...

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