For modern skeptics, the 6th-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in bees wax and colored pigments. For believers ...

Nowhere is this strangeness more apparent than in the majestic sixth-century Christ Pantocrator of Sinai, an icon whose asymmetry has been the subject of endless commentary. Using the same split ...

For believers, this Christ Pantocrator ("ruler of all") icon is the most famous image of Jesus in the world, because the remote Sinai Peninsula location of St. Catherine's Monastery allowed it to ...

Located at the base of Mount Sinai in Egypt, the monastery was built by orders of Emperor Justinian in the 6th century. Image credit: Wikipedia Full frame and detail of the right eye from the icon ...

Image credit: Wikipedia Full frame and detail of the right eye from the icon titled 'Christ Pantocrator Sinai' circa 565 AD. From the replica series released by Saint Catherine's Monastery being ...

Image credit: Wikipedia Full frame and detail of the right eye from the icon titled 'Christ Pantocrator Sinai' circa 565 AD. From the replica series released by Saint Catherine's Monastery being ...