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One leaf of the Syriac Galen Palimpsest remains at St. Catherine's in the Sinai Desert in Egypt, which has the world's oldest continuously operating library. Credit Mark Schrope

One leaf of the Syriac Galen Palimpsest remains at St. Catherine's in the Sinai Desert in Egypt, which has the world's oldest continuously operating library. Credit Mark Schrope

1 posted on 06/02/2015 10:45:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

Hours 9:00 AM to 5:PM closed Sundays and holidays.


4 posted on 06/02/2015 10:51:34 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: SunkenCiv
Cool looking book at the very least...


5 posted on 06/02/2015 10:52:04 AM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: SunkenCiv

Very cool.


6 posted on 06/02/2015 10:57:36 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SunkenCiv

Is that photo B.I. or A.C. ?

“Before Isis”

or

“Anno Caliphate”

?


18 posted on 06/03/2015 8:26:10 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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