Discovered in 1945 near the town of Nag Hammadi in Egypt, the Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of ancient texts that has ...

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 ...

The Nag Hammadi “library,” as it is often called, turned out to be a treasure trove of ancient Gnostic texts. The 13 codices contained 52 tractates (individual writings—Coptic translations ...

Polish experts excavating in the southern Egyptian city ... most important Coptic discovery since 1945, when a pair of Bedouins stumbled onto the Coptic codices in Nag Hammadi in Egypt's western ...

a Muslim gunman opened fire on worshippers as they left a Christmas Eve service in the Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi, killing seven people and wounding 10 more. Six of the men killed were Coptic ...