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The Coptic Museum is a museum devoted entirely to Coptic art between the years 300 to 1000 of our era. It was created in 1910 and contains different pieces of architecture, ivory objects, icons and papyri, all of them from the Coptic invoice.

Coptic icons originated from ancient Greek and Egyptian icons, as seen in Fayum portraits. The faces of El Fayum are examples of Coptic art from the 2nd century, with strong Hellenistic and Roman influences, but some distinctive details of Egyptian art. An icon literally means “image” a work of religious art of Eastern Christianity in which Jesus, Maria, the Saints, the angels or biblical events are represented and are used in prayer, Orthodox Christians pray in the presence of the icon, whom he respects but does not adore them. In a painting on a flat panel, but it can also be in relief and made of metal, carved in stone, embroidered, made on paper, mosaic, embossed, etc. It is a graphic representation, mainly a simple drawing or scheme. Unlike Italian Renaissance painters, Coptic artists did not sign their works, but the main ones known include Saint Luke, believed to be the first iconographer, and two Coptic Popes, Macarius I and Gabriel III.

Do you know ¿what is the greatest treasure that this museum preserves? Thomas asks Anne. No, she replies.

Ancient sacred texts known as the Nag Hammadi Manuscripts are preserved here.

-Yes, the so-called Apocryphal Gospels? Sure those.

After touring the museum, they meet with Egyptian intelligence in front of the museum, and he lets them know of the suspicion that a Catholic Cardinal had recently visited the Coptic Quarter and met with a religious leader of the Orthodox Christian churches of the place. They do not know for what reason. Maybe just see the Nag Hammadi Scrolls that the Vatican always wanted to possess.

Thomas reminds them that the MNH, the Nag Hammadi manuscripts, are kept in the Coptic Museum. For the Arab world, they lack meaning, but he tells you that for the Christian world it is, and it is possible that Cardinal Bonarotti’s visit is related to that.

They look at each other, shaking their heads, as if hesitating a little.

Finally, they return to the Citadel of Sala el-Dim for then with the collected data they decide, to visit the Cardinal himself in Rome.

Al Azhar Park is a beautiful green haven in the middle of busy Cairo. Listed as one of the sixty greatest public spaces in the world. By the Project for Public Space (PPS). Vrado by the Aga Khan Trus for Culture Program for Historic Cities, an agency focused on the weakening of the communities of the Islamic World, chaired by the Aga Khan IV, Prince Karim al-Hussayni, whose ancestors, the Caliph Fatimies, founded the city from Cairo in 969.

In this place surrounded by flower bushes, fruit trees and palms is the place where Thomas and Anne meet every morning to begin their investigation with an open mind. There Jamil picks them up and they go to the airport this time. Rome awaits you.