Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World’s Oldest Continuously Run Libraries The centuries-old texts were erased, and then written over, by monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt Saint Catherine’s Monastery, a sacred Christian site nestled in the shadow of Mount Sinai, is home to one of the world’s oldest continuously used libraries. Thousands of manuscripts and books are kept there—so
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