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,...
Church buildings; Columns; Coptic church buildings; Monuments; Staircases; Tombs; Water; Crypts; Cairo (Egypt)
Crypt in Old Cairo where tradition says the Holy family lived. This area of the church is sometimes inaccessible (as shown here) due to subterranean water. This crypt, which is underneath the present-day sanctuary, was the original sanctuary of...
Church buildings; Columns; Coptic church buildings; Monuments; Tombs; Water; Crypts; Cairo (Egypt)
Crypt in Old Cairo where tradition says the Holy family lived. This area of the church is sometimes inaccessible (as shown here) due to subterranean water. This crypt, which is underneath the present-day sanctuary, was the original sanctuary of...
Philip Hammond with other Nag Hammadi diggers in the rocky desert below Jabal al-Ṭārif work on a stone trench area. This was taken during season one of the dig.
