The Coptic Museum in Cairo is hosting a special 30-day archaeological exhibition, 'The Saint Knight', in celebration of the Coptic New Year (1741 AM), which corresponds to 2024-2025 AD.

Hair-raising accounts of a similar sea monster were recorded by Alexandrian scribes as early as the second century A.D.; these accounts spread through Europe and Asia in Arabic, Coptic, Latin and ...

He was also deeply accomplished in archival research: his “Catalogue of Coptic Literary Manuscripts in the British Library Acquired since the Year 1906” (1987) provided first editions of many ...

Oldest Christian book sells for more than £3million at London auction The Crosby-Schøyen Codex was written in Coptic script on papyrus in Egypt between 250 to 350AD ...

The codex, currently owned by Norwegian collector Martin Schøyen, contains 104 pages and was found in Egypt in 1952 among some other manuscripts buried in a jar in the sand. The book is made of ...

A trip to the Morgan Library in NYC, a rare books library set up by the banker J.P. Morgan, holding an incredible collection of illuminated manuscripts, paintings, coptic manuscripts, and more! The ...

It will be auctioned by Christie's in June. A 1,700-year-old Biblical manuscript used by the monks of Upper Egypt will be auctioned in London.

The Crosby-Schøyen Codex, a Coptic papyrus manuscript written in Egypt, is the oldest Christian liturgical book in existence, according to Christie’s, the auction house that will be selling the ...

A view of the Crosby-Schoyen Codex, written in Coptic on papyrus around 250-350 A.D. and produced in one of the first Christian monasteries, in New York, U.S., in this screenshot taken on April 3 ...