The symposium is to highlight the successful fieldwork to date and to conserve ancient manuscripts up to 1500 years old with the support of the British council's cultural protection fund
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Coptic historian Atef Naguib discusses a key, but often overlooked, era in Egyptian history
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Work on restoring the library of St Catherine's Monastery began in 2014
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The antique religious object was seized at Hurghada International airport as a passenger attempted to smuggle it to Germany
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The object is carved of limestone and decorated with a cross and Coptic texts
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The museum worker had hidden the stolen piece under his clothes
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Restorers at the Monastery of St. Bishoy near Cairo have uncovered frescoes depicting saints, martyrs and angels
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An exhibition on Egypt’s Coptic 'martyrs' from the early Coptic era until the present was inaugurated on Thursday at Cairo’s Coptic Museum
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Saint Eugene Church in Port Said is put on Egypt's Heritage List for Islamic and Coptic Monuments
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Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab and Pope Towadros II of Alexandria opened the Hanging Church in Old Cairo today after 16 years of restoration at a budget of LE101 million
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Entitled "Wahed Tout", the Ministry of Antiquities is celebrating Coptic New Year with lectures and music tonight at the Coptic Museum
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Hanging Church in Old Cairo will reopen in October after long process of renovation
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World Heritage Organisation offers $100,000 grant to help restore Abu Mena city and monastery
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'Thief' reportedly tried to get rid of the Coptic icon of Mary and Jesus when he realised customs would check his bag
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Airport police foiled on Wednesday a smuggling attempt of three Coptic artefacts headed to the US
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After years of neglect, the Abbey Church of the Apostles in Atfih town in Giza regains its original splendour
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Not far from Egypt's UNESCO World Heritage Site of Abu Mena are the remains of an old pilgrimage harbour that in its heyday received scores of pilgrims on their way to the sanctuary of Saint Menas
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Is a scrap of papyrus suggesting that Jesus had a wife authentic?
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Abbasiya Cathedral hosts exhibition charting life of Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III, who died in March 2012
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