Senior Egyptian antiquities officials and Egypt's Coptic Orthodox pope ... after groundwater levels threatened the ruins of an ancient church, public buildings and homes. Egypt drained the ...

Karen King, a professor of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, announced the finding Tuesday at an international congress on Coptic studies ... was "suspicious." Ancient papyrus ...

One mural, a common motif in Coptic art, symbolically depicts eyes surrounding a face, representing inner spiritual insight, Khaled said. Another mural shows a man, believed to be Joseph the ...

The archaeologists also found inscriptions and carvings on walls, which could shed new light on Coptic art and spirituality. These inscriptions and carvings include a unique depiction of multiple ...

An Ancient Christian tomb complex dating back 1,500 years was discovered by a contractor who was clearing rubble beneath a destroyed house in Syria's Idlib province.

check out neighborhood attractions like the Coptic Museum and the seventh-century Hanging Church, which are housed within the ancient Fortress of Babylon. You'll also find significant Jewish and ...

Its storied holdings include Coptic crosses, manuscripts from Malcolm X, papers of Langston Hughes and sculpture by Augusta Savage. On the evening of the first Wednesday in May, Harlem’s ...

A contractor recently stumbled across an ancient Christian tomb complex while ... "Based on the presence of the cross and the pottery and glass pieces that were found, this tomb dates back to ...