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  • Egypt: Rare Manuscript Discovered in Saint Catherine Monastery

    07/07/2017 7:55:31 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 9 replies
    Asharq Al Aswat ^ | 7/7/17 | Waleed Abdul Rahman
    Cairo- Egypt has announced the discovery of a rare manuscript dating back to the fifth or sixth century at the Saint Catherine Monastery in southern Sinai. Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany said the manuscript was uncovered by monks during restoration works carried out at the monastery’s library. The minister highlighted the discovery’s importance, as it features medical texts written by the renowned Greek physician Hippocrates, along with three other texts by an anonymous writer. The monastery has a library containing 6,000 manuscripts, among them 600 manuscripts written in Arabic, Greek, Ethiopian, Coptic, Armenian and Syriac dating back to the 4th...