A Norwegian-French archaeological mission working in Qasr Al-Agouz, Bahariya Oasis have discovered several ancient Coptic ruins made out of basalt and mud brick. The head of the Islamic, Coptic and ...

CAIRO, May 25 (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered a mudbrick building dating to the 6th-7th centuries in the Manqabad area of Assiut Governorate, south of Cairo, the Ministry ...

An Egyptian-led archaeological team unearthed the remains of a mudbrick structure in the Monqabad area of Assiut in Upper Egypt, believed to date back to the sixth and seventh centuries AD during the ...

Pope Francis tells Pope Tawadros II that the inscription of the 21 Coptic Orthodox Christians in what is known as the Roman Martyrology, or calendar of saints, was 'a sign of the spiritual communion ...

VATICAN CITYVATICAN CITY — The Vatican is formally recognizing 21 Coptic Orthodox workers who were beheaded by Islamic militants in Libya as martyrs with their own feast day, in a significant new ...

A 2,000-year-old settlement was discovered in the Kharga Oasis in Egypt, a site first inhabited in the 3rd century BCE and reused during the early Coptic period between the 3rd and 7th centuries CE.

BASP publishes a wide variety of articles and reviews of relevance to papyrology and related disciplines. From text editions to important synthetic articles, BASP has published studies on papyri, ...

The Vatican is formally recognizing 21 Coptic Orthodox workers who were beheaded by Islamic militants in Libya as martyrs with their own feast day, in a significant new ecumenical gesture aimed at ...

BYU associate professor of ancient scripture Lincoln H. Blumell recently translated a 1,700-year-old inscription written in ancient Greek on an epitaph from Egypt. The small limestone epitaph, which ...