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[http://www.sinaimonastery.com/index.php/en/library Website] | [http://www.sinaimonastery.com/index.php/en/library Website] | ||
::The library, founded sometime between 548 and 565, is the oldest continuously operating library in the world. The monastery library preserves the second largest collection of early codices and manuscripts in the world, outnumbered only by the Vatican Library. It contains Greek, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Syriac, Coptic, Georgian, Arabic, Ethiopic/Ge‘ez, Latin, Armenian, Church Slavonic, and Caucasian Albanian manuscripts and books. It also contains some very rare Hebrew Language books.<ref>"Saint Catherine's Monastery", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery, accessed 2 December 2022.</ref> | ::The library, founded sometime between 548 and 565, is the oldest continuously operating library in the world. The monastery library preserves the second largest collection of early codices and manuscripts in the world, outnumbered only by the Vatican Library. It contains Greek, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Syriac, Coptic, Georgian, Arabic, Ethiopic/Ge‘ez, Latin, Armenian, Church Slavonic, and Caucasian Albanian manuscripts and books. It also contains some very rare Hebrew Language books.<ref>"Saint Catherine's Monastery", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery, accessed 2 December 2022.</ref> | ||
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'''Arab Genealogy Books Online'''<br> | |||
[https://www.familysearch.org/en/library/MENA/egypt-books Website]<br> | |||
Open access collection of Arabic genealogy books that have been digitized and can be browsed by country/region. Books contain valuable information about tribal histories and family lineages. | |||
==Museums== | ==Museums== | ||
[http://www.darelkotob.gov.eg/ar-eg/Pages/Museum.aspx#top '''Dar al-Kutub Museum in Bab al-Khalq''']<br> | [http://www.darelkotob.gov.eg/ar-eg/Pages/Museum.aspx#top '''Dar al-Kutub Museum in Bab al-Khalq''']<br> | ||