Pahor Labib was Director of the Coptic Museum, Cairo, Egypt, from 1951 to 1965 and one of the world leaders in Egyptology and Coptology.
Pahor Labib
Pahor Labib was one of the world leaders in the Coptic language. He was also well versed in hieroglyphs. Above shows a postcard in hieroglyphs from Professor Herman Grapow to his student Pahor Labib sent in 1932
Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria with Pahor Labib in the 1960s
Pahor Labib with Henry Kissinger in the Coptic Museum, Labib showing a page of the Nag Hammadi Library preserved in special glass.
Copts are a Christian ethnoreligious group native to Egypt who have inhabited the area of modern Egypt since antiquity. They are, like the broader Egyptian population, descended from the ancient Egypt
Faiyum mummy portrait of an Egyptian man with sword belt, Altes Museum
The Hanging Church in Coptic Cairo
Egyptian Coptic monks at the American Colony, Jerusalem, between 1898 and 1914.