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Peter1469
08-28-2017, 07:07 PM
Scientists discover lost languages at Egyptian monastery (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/scientists-discover-lost-languages-in-find-at-egyptian-monastery-qkvd6l9ps)

I was stationed there for 6 months but didn't have the time to get to Saint Catherine.


Ancient works not read by humans since the Dark Ages have been found at an Egyptian monastery, using a technique that allows researchers to reconstruct documents long ago scrubbed off parchment.

The finds at Saint Catherine’s monastery on the Sinai peninsula hailed a “new golden age of discovery”, according to the scientists behind the research, who believe that the methods could reveal many other lost texts.


They have been chronicling the monastery’s library, which has been in continuous use for 1,500 years, but which is today threatened by growing Islamic fundamentalism and attacks on Christians in the region.

Common
08-28-2017, 07:09 PM
Theres alot more we dont know then weve ever discovered

Peter1469
08-28-2017, 07:11 PM
Theres alot more we dont know then weve ever discovered
And a lot has been destroyed. Just think what was lost in the Great Library.

Chris
08-28-2017, 07:23 PM
Think I read about this monastery recently. The monks were all hung up on Moses for a long time, the mountain is where Moses got the commandments and all. Then, mysteriously, the bone of St Catherine were found on the mountain and they turned into a sort of Catherine cult and sold oil from her bones. A church was erected within the walls for her. The walls were constructed during a crusade, and manned to protect the monks, then reinforced by...forget. The entrance is a door way up in the wall so goods and stuff need to be lifted up on a pully. And the dorr is only open a short time each day. They have a practive of burying the dead till the flesh rots off and then exhuming the bones and piling up the skulls in a building. Weird stuff. And yes the ancient libary.

Peter1469
08-28-2017, 07:28 PM
It is at the site of what they believe to be Mount Sinai.