Site identified by Jean Doresse's pictures as the site of the find. The arrow points to the position under the fallen boulder that Muḥammad 'Alī Khalīfah al-Sammān identified as the site of his discovery.
Douglas Kuylenstierna, photographer for the Nag Hammadi excavation, poses for a picture below the Jabal al-Ṭārif cliff, the discovery site of the codices.
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,...
Facing north from the talus at the site of the discovery, with the flatland then extending west, and the Jabal al-Ṭārif closing it in further to the north.
Aerial photographs; Nile River; Deserts - Egypt; Jabal al-Ṭārif (Egypt); Naj' Ḥammādī (Egypt); Al Qaṣr (Egypt)
Naj' Ḥammādī itself is on the left bank, on the sout-west side of the large bend of the Nile River. Al-Qaṣr (Chenoboskeia) is on the right bank, half-way down the large bend. Just north of al-Qaṣr, the light area indicates the arid,...
Site in Wādi Sheikh 'Alī where the Coptic graffiti in red paint are at the left under the overhanging wall of the cliff. Munīr al-Qamṣ Basīlīyūs 'Abd al-Masīḥ reported that he had been told by a cousin, Abuna Mankarios of Dishnā, that...
Picture taken from a hill overlooking what appears to be an excavated archaeological site. Several buildings carved from the rock face are in view; Israel.
Caves; Excavations (Archaeology) - Egypt; Inscriptions; Stone carving; Hedrick, Charles W.; Hanny M. el-Zeiny, 1918-
Charles Hedrick and Hānī al-Zaynī at project site. Hanny el-Zeini was the director of the Nag Hammadi sugar factory where the Nag Hammadi excavations were headquartered.
