The Egyptian ankh—a symbol of life—has long intrigued scholars and conspiracy theorists alike for its resemblance to the ...

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And new martyrs are incorporated into the Coptic Orthodox Church’s Synaxarium, or Life of the Saints, and linked to the sacrifice of Christ on the cross. These stories of saints serve as ...

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 ...

His 2004 book, “Coptic Grammar,” revolutionized the study of the language ... a platform for anyone at Yale working on ancient Mediterranean-related projects to present their work to a ...

Her use of mirrors also multiplies the view of the towers and their cross cutouts. “It looks like there are a million Ethiopia Coptic Orthodox crosses and a million light towers,” she says.

On the narrow street, many women just like Bamy are sorting through sacks while sitting cross-legged on the pavement ... I visit their local church, the Coptic Church of the Virgin Mary, known ...

The Devotion portion, meanwhile, presents visitors with undeniably chic examples of religious metalsmithing in a trio of gorgeously rendered Ethiopian Coptic crosses. Just behind them Nari Ward ...

Marked with candles, crosses, palm fronds, olive branches and roses, Coptic Christians celebrated Palm Sunday as they chanted religious hymns. It is the last Sunday of Great Lent for the Copts and the ...

CAIRO — In Egypt, it’s very common to find cross tattoos on the wrists of Coptic Christians, who are 12% to 15% of Egypt’s population. Such a tattoo symbolizes a long history of bloody persecution and ...

"In Egypt, they used to do little Christian tattoos like the Coptic cross on the wrist as a way of Christians marking themselves for Jesus," Wassim told me. Their business has existed in many ...

My guide, Fr Yostos, is a middle-aged man, with a welcoming smile and booming laugh, he wears, like all Coptic monks, a long black robe, a black skullcap adorned with thirteen white crosses ...