The Coptic Museum, founded by the late Mark Thick (Pasha), was founded in 1910 to fill a gap in the records of Egyptian art and help study the history of Christianity in Egypt. In 1893, Marcus Pasha Samika demanded that the collection of the Coptic Antiquities be included in the interests of the Committee for the Preservation of Antiquities and Arts. This man struggled for so long that he could erect the current building of the museum, which opened in 1910 and was appointed the first...

This museum is located in ancient Egypt within the boundaries of the Babylon Fortress, whose remains are located behind the museum building; Its construction began during the days of the Persians, but many additions occurred during the reign of the Roman emperors Augustus and Trajan, and then the Roman emperors who came after them added to it. The French scientist (Maspero) played an important role in the establishment of the museum, as he worked to collect works of Coptic art and allocate...

It's like travelling to Greece in no time. After stepping in the museum's courtyard, you can forget that you're in Cairo. The oldest exhibits are about the pre Christian Greek civilization, there are many frescoes about people harvesting grapes, producing wine and about Dionysus, Aphrodite, about Zeus and Europe. The newer exhibits are artifacts collected from various Coptic churches around Cairo and they are like a time capsule. There are religious icons of various saints, some of them...