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

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

Pope Francis with Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II in Cairo April 28 (Credit: CNS/Paul Haring.) Listen ROME – This week there will again be “two popes” at the Vatican when Francis meets his ...

In this undated photo distributed Monday, March 6, 2023, by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, a sphinx statue believed to be made in the likeness of a Roman emperor is uncovered ...

The Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission from Barcelona University uncovered 22 tombs from the Persian, Roman and Coptic periods during excavation work carried out at the Al-Bahnasa ...

Archaeologists have discovered a residential area in Luxor dating to the time when the Roman Empire ruled Egypt. A team of archaeologists ... Copte (Bulletin of the Coptic Archaeological Society ...

They had conquered great stretches of the classical world, from Sassanid Persia to Coptic Egypt and the Byzantine ... ruling Spain since the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476.

A disciple of Jesus Christ, Judas Iscariot allegedly sold out his master to Roman authorities for 30 pieces of silver ... In 2006, a so-called “Gospel of Judas,” a “lost” text written in Coptic ...

An archaeological mission from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities has discovered the remains of a Roman fort at the Shiha archaeological site in Aswan. A press release from the council stated that ...

An Egyptian excavation mission has uncovered the remains of a Roman fort, an early Coptic church, and a Ptolemaic temple during excavation work carried out at Shiha Fort in Upper Egypt's Aswan.