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Mount Catherine

Mount Catherine (Arabic: ?????? ????????????; Greek: ???????? ?????? ?????????? ??????????????????????), locally known as Gabal Katr??ne, is the highest mountain in Egypt. It is located near the town of Saint Catherine in the South Sinai Governorate. The name is derived from the Christian tradition that angels transported to this mountain the body of the martyred Saint Catherine of Alexandria. At the summit of the mountain, there is a chapel built in 1905 and a meteorological station. History Archaeology On the north of Mount Catherine, archaeologists uncovered a cave with paintings of people and animals in red pigment dates back to the Chalcolithic Period,c. 5th???4th millennium BC in January of 2020. According to John Darnell, red painted images are not as common as engraved images...

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