A ruling by an Egyptian court transferring ownership of one of the world's oldest monasteries to the state has provoked ...

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Political and ecclesiastical authorities have defended the ancient rights of the Greek Orthodox St Catherine’s Monastery on ...

Initial reports that the centuries-old St. Catherine's Monastery would be closed were denied, but Orthodox leaders remain ...

St Catherine’s was built by the order of Justinian I between 548 and 565, but court ruling could see it turned into museum ...

Egypt has ordered the closure of the world's oldest continuously functioning Christian monastery, much to the fury of ...

Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is a Greek name, too, deriving from the Greek phrase "Is tin poli," meaning "to the city." ...

Abstract: This paper discusses the recursive Bayesian formulation of the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem in which probability distributions or estimates of absolute or relative ...

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