From monastic texts to modern-day liturgy, discover how this ancient language still survives in the Coptic Orthodox Church and academic studies. Missouri coach booed by own fans after in-game plea ...

But the ancient manuscript is all the more fascinating ... The book is made of papyrus and written in Coptic, an Egyptian language in which many important early Christian texts are preserved.

Bentley Layton, the pre-eminent scholar of his generation of the late ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died on March 26 at his home in New Haven from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.