As monks' quarters and graffiti-laced walls are revealed beneath the desert sun, a long-forgotten chapter of Christian ...

An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of ...

If that should happen, some Christian leaders fear that many of Egypt’s Copts would flee the country. One Friday morning I took a taxi through quiet Cairo streets to the city’s ancient Coptic ...

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church mourned Pope Francis on Monday, saying he was "a true example of Christian humility".

Famous Christian artists Chris Tomlin and Ben Fielding have revived a third century hymn discovered on ancient Egyptian ...

But what is the Eye of Horus and what did it mean to the ancient Egyptians? According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought h ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Bentley Layton, the pre-eminent scholar of his generation of the late ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died on March 26 at his home in New Haven from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.

According to legend, it was St. Mark who introduced Christianity to Egypt ... like the Coptic Museum and the ninth-century Hanging Church, which are housed within an ancient Babylonian fortress.

Discover how Egypt’s ancient landmarks are being preserved, from Qaitbay Citadel’s ongoing renovations to past projects like ...