Pocket guide to Coptic culture in Egypt.  60 colour plates depict the wall paintings and icons of Coptic churches in Alexandria and Cairo followed by Coptic desert monasteries and a section on Coptic textiles.  Each illustration has a facing description in English, French and German.

Excellent full colour catalogue of rare examples of Coptic carving - capitals, columns, doorways, friezes and stelae as well as the Christianisation of the ancient Egyptian temples at Philae and Karnak by the addition of carved crosses plus a well illustrated section depicting little known ancien