"Magical" texts from Egypt in Coptic script and language are at the center of a research project at the University of Würzburg. They have now been collected and scientifically annotated for the first ...

An ancient scrap of papyrus makes explicit reference to Jesus having a wife, according to a renowned expert in Christian history, external. Harvard divinity professor Karen King unveiled the ...

Karen King, an expert in the history of Christianity, said the text contains a dialogue in which Jesus refers to "my wife," whom he identifies as Mary. King says the fragment of Coptic script is a ...

Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written with mostly Greek letters. This video traces the development of Coptic from ...

A Harvard University professor has unveiled a fourth-century piece of papyrus she said is the only existing ancient text quoting Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife, identified as Mary. Karen ...

An ancient scrap of papyrus makes explicit reference to Jesus having a wife, according to a renowned expert in Christian history, external. Harvard divinity professor Karen King unveiled the ...

An ancient scrap of papyrus dating back to the 4th Century states explicitly that Jesus had a wife, an expert in Christian history has claimed. A fragment of papyrus has thrown Jesus’ marital status ...