Sinai 372 A.D.—An Excellent Year

One way or another you’ve probably already heard of St. Catherine’s monastery in the Sinai because of its long religious tradition: It sits at the base of Jebel Musa, one of the traditional locations of Mt. Sinai, and for centuries it was home to the famed Codex Sinaiticus, possibly the world’s oldest extant copy of the Christian Bible.a But now a recent archaeological discovery has put the site of St. Catherine’s on the map again—not so much for its holy relics as for its “vintage” appeal. Egyptian archaeologists announced the discovery this past summer of two wine presses carved […]