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Monks and residents collide in tiny Assiut

Religious Tourism

Monks and residents collide in tiny Assiut

By By Hazel Heyer, eTN Staff Writer

Assiut is a tiny, reserved, quiet tourist town in Egypt with few post-Pharaonic attractions gaining widespread tourist attention.

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Ancient coins found near St. Catherine's Monastery

Egypt

Ancient coins found near St. Catherine's Monastery

By Hazel Heyer

(eTN) - Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced Sunday that two golden coins of the Byzantine emperor Valens (AD 364-378) were unearthed early this week in the Sayl al-Tuhfah area in Gebel Abbas, located west of Saint Catherine’s monastery in Sinai. He added that these coins were found during routine excavations carried out by the ... read more