An important examination of Coptic monastery ruins producing many fragments of Coptic manuscripts.
This is a facsimile reissue of Flinders Petrie's 1907 account of excavations at Gizeh and at Dier Rifeh in Upper Egypt, just south of Asyut. At Gizeh excavations focused on a cemetery lying on a ridge about 1 km south of the Great Pyramid while work at Rifeh extended from a well-known Coptic village for about 5 km southwards to beyond the...