Wadi el-Natroun
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On the edge of the Libyan Desert, not far from the motorway between Cairo and Alexandria, is a depression, fertilised over some 30km. Known and worked since ancient times, Wadi el-Natroun has been a monastic centre since the early 4C. Today this little valley is the headquarters of four Coptic monasteries.

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