In Part 3 of the Arab-Byzantine Wars series, we explore how Muslim forces led by Amr ibn al-As conquered Egypt from the ...

During the question session following his talk on his book Napoleon's Egypt, Prof. Cole makes a brief remark (around 38:40) about Byzantine Egypt that caught m ...

Pope Shenouda III, the patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church who led Egypt's Christian minority for 40 years during a time of increasing tensions with Muslims, has died. He was 88. The state ...

When he set foot in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, he befriended a member of the imperial family, ... Byzantine (Akhmim, Egypt), 5th-7th Century.

Participants in Egypt’s recent protests stunned observers in many ways. ... “The Coptic Orthodox claim the Apostle Mark was the founder of the Coptic Orthodox Church,” says Rodgers.

Egypt's ancient Coptic Orthodox Church named a new pope on Sunday, chosen in an elaborate ceremony in which a blindfolded boy drew the name of the next patriarch from a crystal chalice.