圣凯瑟琳修道院 在神迹遍布的西奈山
上帝在燃烧的树丛中向摩西显灵的希腊东正教修道院。这里是持续有人居住的最古老的基督教修道院，其历史可以追溯到 17 个世纪以前。
This exhibition is brought to you by the partnership of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the Mount Sinai Foundation.
The Holy Summit of Sinai, also known as Jebel Mousa, is the place where Moses received the Law from God.
Explore the Summit进一步了解摩西向上帝显现的修道院，并参观燃烧的石 膏
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Saint Catherine is depicted accompanied by angels holding up her halo. The symbols of the Mother of God adopted by Cretan painters in the sixteenth century refer to her learning, her struggle for Christ, and her martyrdom and triumph.
For more than sixteen hundred years, the monks have carefully preserved the icons, vestments, manuscripts, liturgical objects, and other treasures in their possession.
Enter the MuseumAn international team of 23 world-renowned scholars, each an expert in ancient languages and manuscript studies, are working with the project to identify and describe the undertexts of Sinai palimpsests, after they are rendered legible via spectral imaging.
The Sinai Palimpsests Project is using state-of-the-art spectral imaging to recover erased texts from palimpsest manuscripts in the library of St. Catherine's Monastery of the Sinai, the world's oldest continually operating monastery.
