"And there's another key to Saint Catherine's survival. The high walls of the monastery protected it from attack when, in its early days, Saint Catherine's was a frontier fortress of the Byzantine Empire (东罗马帝国的边界堡垒)."展开全文
"The Book of Revelation describes the new Jerusalem (耶路撒冷) coming down from God in the form of a great cube or square, each side measuring 144 cubits, or about 78 metres. That's roughly the shape and dimensions of Saint Catherine's monastery."展开全文
"Deep in the desert wilderness, in the heart of a Muslim穆斯林 world, stands the oldest continuously occupled Christian monastery基督教修道院 in the world. It's a place where people have come for 1,700 years to find solitude, to contemplate God, to experience paradise on Earth."展开全文
"...Holy Ganges water being poured over it. And in a moment now it will be taken to its logs, its pyre of logs, and it'll be cremated. The soul liberated, the soul sent on its way...the soul won't have to be reborn. It will return to God. Unity with the Almighty. "展开全文
"Once a year, the tiny village of San Jose(圣约瑟) gathers in its church to venerate three skulls. Some say they belong to Catholic missionaries(天主教传教士), others that they're the remains(遗骨) of Mayan chiefs or holy men."展开全文
"This shaft's been descending rather steeply(陡斜下降至地下) for over 200 metres...get below this sort of lintel横梁 here,all cut from the limestone...It's rough,it's treacherous. The burial chamber墓室...no sign of plaster or paintings石像壁画...no body of Hatshepsut down here."展开全文
"...there's the vent(通风口), the open space, connecting to the cool air from the ice. So you'd sit up here with your great big frocks with cold air coming up underneath them, feeling elegant but cool."展开全文
