Tourist companies have placed the visit to the archaeological Monastery of Saint Anthony, the oldest monastic monastery in the world, as part of their tourist programs. This follows with increasing ...

CAIRO, Feb. 10, 2010 — -- Near Egypt's Red Sea coast ... Made of sand-colored stone, the Coptic Orthodox monastery of St. Anthony -- or Anthony the Great -- is believed to be 1,600 years ...

ST. ANTHONY'S MONASTERY, Egypt - In a cave here high in the desert mountains of eastern Egypt, the man said to be the father of monasticism took refuge from the temptations of the world some 17 ...

They lived and practiced their ideals close to their communities and families, and in the next century these ideas spread throughout Egypt. The Coptic St. Anthony's Monastery is one of the oldest ...