As monks' quarters and graffiti-laced walls are revealed beneath the desert sun, a long-forgotten chapter of Christian ...

It’s one of Egypt’s most sacred and ancient burial ... With its brick kilns, storage rooms, and commercial ostraca—pottery shards inscribed with Greek and Demotic writing—it appears ...

Mohamed Abdel Badie, head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector ... These potsherds, known as ostraca, detail commercial transactions at the time and the method of paying taxes, researchers said.