In the Sinai, a global team is revolutionizing the preservation of ancient manuscripts

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.

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