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There is a repetitive, forlorn beeping whose shrill, electronic whine pierces the desolation of the place. Every few seconds, whenever someone enters or leaves the still monastery, the metal-detectors alert punctuates the howl of the wind sweeping ac ...
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/567/tr3.htm
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- Life of St. Antony
Full text of Athanasius of Alexandrias Life of St. Antony, written between AD 356 and 362, the main source for subsequent biographies, from Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University. ...
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/vita-antony.html
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- Popes Visit Lays Historic Basis for Egyptian-Vatican Ties
SIS Chairman Ayman el-Qaffas and Hani Seif el-Nasr, Secretary General of Social Fund for Development, signed cooperation protocol between the two sides to confirm the developmental strategy adopted by the State to disseminate the culture of private w ...
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html2/o040320d.htm
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- The Coptic Museum in Egypt
Coptic Monuments are considered as a liaison between Ancient Egyptian Art during the Pharaonic and the Graeco-Roman periods on one hand and the Islamic era on the other. This fact granted these monuments a great importance in the Egyptian Art in gene ...
http://www.copticmuseum.gov.eg/English/default.htm
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| | - Christianity in Egypt
As early as the Pharaonic period of Egypts New Kingdom, and because of increasing contact with the Near East, a fashion developed in Egypt of wearing ornate garments decorated withcolorful decorations. This fashion disappeared during the Late Pharaon ...
http://touregypt.net/magazine/christianityinegypt.htm
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- Holy Family in Egypt
Egypt is the cradle of human civilization: a fact hardly contested among authoritative historians. But Egypt also enjoys a focal geopolitical position, connecting Africa, Asia, and Europe through the Mediterranean Sea. On its land, migrations of peop ...
http://www.touregypt.net/holyfamily1.htm
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- Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai
Online version of the exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, which features 53 items from St. Catherines Monastery, located at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt; includes a behind-the-scenes description of the icons journey from Egypt to Los Angeles. ...
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/icons_sinai/index.html
| | - Gospel of Judas Pages Endured Long, Strange Journey
Discusses the Gospel of Judas, which was used among the Cainites, an early Christian gnostic sect, and the only known manuscript, a leather-bound papyrus codex which recently surfaced after 1700 years in the desert of Egypt; contains information on t ...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0406_060406_gospel.html
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