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A cross-regional initiative for the study of
monasticism in the late antique Near East
Limestone Quarries
North of the Batn al-Baqara is a significant stretch of mountain that was quarried since pharaonic times.
Batn al-Baqara
Among these quarries is significant evidence of their adaptive reuse in late antiquity by Christian monks. Click on the buttons in the satellite map below for more information on the what the team documented during the 2014 season.
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