Muḥammad 'Alī Khalīfah al-Sammān stands on the talus at the base of the Jabal al-Ṭārif cliff and points out site SE of T 75 where the hieroglyph cave is covered by landslide.
Anita, James Robinson's wife, poses for a photograph with a man identified as Muḥammad 'Alī Khalīfah al-Sammān. Muḥammad 'Alī is credited for having discovered ancient codices in a jar buried at Jabal al-Ṭārif.
Egyptian identified as Muḥammad 'Alī Khalīfah al-Sammān, the man who discovered the Nag Hammadi codices, poses for photograph with Naj' Ḥammādī town in background.
Muḥammad 'Alī stands at the site where his father was murdered in vengence. Muḥammad 'Alī's father was a night watchman who guarded irrigation equipment in the fields. On 7 May 1945 he killed a marauder while working. The next day he,...
Bottom of the Graeco-Roman polished red ware bowl of the fifth century C. E., used as the lid of the jar in which the Nag Hammadi codices were secreted. Acquired from Salib 'Abd al-Masīḥ at Chenoboskeia (al-Qaṣr). Salib received the bowl from...
Graeco-Roman polished red ware bowl of the fifth century C. E., used as the lid of the jar in which the Nag Hammadi codices were secreted. Acquired from Salib 'Abd al-Masīḥ at Chenoboskeia (al-Qaṣr). Salib received the bowl from Khalīfah Alī...
Muḥammad 'Alī's mother burned leaves of the Nag Hammadi codices in an outdoor oven (probably Codex XII, of which only a few fragmentary leaves remain).
Egyptian identified as Muḥammad 'Alī Khalīfah al-Sammān, the man who discovered the Nag Hammadi codices, poses at al-Qaṣr with Jabal al-Ṭārif in background.
Muḥammad 'Alī, discoverer of the Nag Hammadi codices, pictured with inhabitants of the town and Abrām Bibāwī, who brought Claremont scholar James Robinson in contact with Muḥammad 'Alī.
Without understanding the significance of his discovery, Muhammed Ali's mother purportedly burned part of the Nag Hammadi codices in an oven similar to this one on her patio.
