Art of Africa: Egypt

The church, baptistry, basilicas, public buildings, streets, monasteries, houses and workshops in this early Christian holy city were built over the tomb of the martyr Menas of Alexandria, who died in 296 C.E
Abu Mena

Beautiful glass was popular from ancient Egypt into the Coptic period
Glass dish, Coptic

In the course of the fourth and fifth centuries C.E., Christians transformed the architectural landscape of pharaonic Egypt by building monumental churches, martyrs’ shrines, and monasteries
Byzantine Egypt and the Coptic period, an ...

By the seventh and eighth centuries in Egypt, patterns on the highest-quality silk panels had become extremely sophisticated and complex
Coptic silk panel

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