"There are thousands of scraps of papyrus where you find crazy things," said Funk, co-director of a project editing the Nag Hammadi Coptic ... general of the Coptic Museum in Cairo, said the ...

In December 1945, Arab peasants were digging for a 'soft soil' near Nag Hammadi ... of Mission Library, I found a copy of the translated Gospel of Thomas published in 1959. The original manuscript, ...

Located in Fustat (Old Cairo), the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) is like no other. The museum is dedicated ...

The Coptic New Year falls on 11 September this year per the Coptic calendar. The exhibition, placed in the museum's special ... including Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman.

While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...

But at the Columbus Metropolitan Library, there’s a lot more going on behind the shelves. From meals for students to local museum tickets to English language courses, CML provides its ...

UPDATE: Additional legal briefs and reports are being filed in two lawsuits challenging the March 14 executive order dismantling the Institute of Museum and Library Services. As a result, parts of ...

including the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK, Bishop Angaelos. Also in attendance were Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil and other politicians. Pope Tawadros II did not give an ...

Established in 1952, the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center was founded by Egyptian architect Ramses Wissa Wassef ... Ramses had intended to use the same plants that were once used for the Coptic museum’s ...