In the Sinai, a global team is revolutionizing the preservation of ancient
manuscripts - The Washington Post

MOUNT HOREB, Egypt — Michael Toth points at a computer screen filled with
what seems to be a jumble of Arabic and Greek letters.

To get to this jumble, he has traveled from Washington to an isolated,
fortress-like monastery in the middle of the Sinai Desert, home to the
oldest continuously operating library on the planet.

He has helped assemble a global team of scientists that arrived with
cutting-edge technology at this spot, three hours by taxi from the nearest
commercial airport.

The image he has paused to appreciate is one of a steady stream coming from
the room next door, where a high-definition camera is focused on one of the
monastery’s rare and priceless ancient manuscripts. The manuscript rests in
a cradle that looks like a chair tilted back at an angle, but with
hydraulic lines and strange lights attached.

One more room over, in the makeshift command center, specialists are
scrutinizing the day’s results, and the monastery’s head librarian, a wispy
gray beard to his stomach, waits in a red velvet chair for the next request
to turn a fragile manuscript page.


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