December
02
/ 2019
Three dead bodies have been retrieved from a collapsed ancient monastery wall in Upper Egypt. On Sunday night Egyptian Civil protection forces faced the terrible task of retrieving three bodies from beneath the rubble of a collapsed wall at the ancient Monastery of Saint Fana in Mallawi, a city located in Upper Egypt's Minya Governorate approximately 152 miles (245 kilometers) south of Cairo on the western bank of the Nile River. The 2,800 square foot (260 square meter) Monastery of Saint Fana was constructed in the 6th century AD with mud bricks, and over 1,400 years the infrastructure apparently deteriorated under the blazing Egyptian sun leading to the event on Sunday night when one of its walls collapsed, claiming the
