Discovered in 1945 near the town of Nag Hammadi in Egypt, the Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of ancient texts that has profoundly influenced our understanding of early Christianity and Gnostic ...

The exhibition includes many painted icons by renowned artists, beautiful textiles, illuminated manuscripts, an excerpt from the famous Nag Hammadi ... from the Coptic Museum’s storage and ...

The Coptic texts, owned by the Maecenas Foundation, consist of 62 pages and also contain “The First Apocalypse of James” and “The Letter of Peter to Philip”—two texts also found at Nag Hammadi. How ...

A page from the Coptic translation of the First Apocalypse of James from the Coptic Museum in Cairo, Egypt. Digitized by Claremont College. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

However, Brown’s western-centric beef with the Catholic Church ends up ignoring the continuous indigenous history of Coptic Christianity in Nag Hammadi present since Mark the Apostle’s arrival in ...

What Muhammad 'Alí discovered at Nag Hammadi, it soon became clear, were Coptic translations, made about 1,500 years ago, of still more ancient manuscripts. The originals themselves had been ...

SEVEN HILLS, Ohio -- A special service will be held tomorrow at St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church of Cleveland in honor for the "Coptic Martyrs of Nag Hammadi." On Jan. 6, a Muslim gunman opened ...

Their deaths have sparked the protest of thousands of Christian Copts outside the government building at Nag Hammadi, demanding protection for the Coptic community, the victim of racketeering and ...

The exhibition includes many painted icons by renowned artists, beautiful textiles, illuminated manuscripts, an excerpt from the famous Nag Hammadi ... from the Coptic Museum’s storage and ...