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 ...

Thanks to the Gnostic Coptic fragments preserved at Nag Hammadi, we have a taste of what some of these contained. But their actual authors, authenticity — or lack of it — will likely never be ...

Bentley Layton, the pre-eminent scholar of his generation of the late ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died on March 26 at his home ... including the gnostic texts found at Nag Hammadi, and the ...

The people of Qena governorate made themselves shining examples of national unity on Tuesday, expressing the depth of bonds between Muslims and Coptic Christians coinciding with the Eastern Orthodox ...

As a part of the festival, visitors will have the opportunity to participate in a guided tour of the church’s Coptic Museum, which tells the history of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt.

The actors who turned down roles in successful movies The original texts are presently housed in the Coptic Museum in Cairo under the identification NHC (Nag Hammadi Codices). The term "gnostic ...

Egypt’s Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Issa opened the exhibition of the Book of Psalms manuscript at the Coptic Museum in Cairo. The manuscript, which has undergone a process of meticulous ...

Today, the Nag Hammadi scriptures are housed in the Coptic Museum in Cairo, Egypt. Robyn’s Booktown workshop condenses the binding process down to just two hours and most of that time is waiting for ...