The movie and book are fiction. But anyone who took in The Da Vinci Code in theaters over the weekend might be wondering whether they had fallen asleep in Sunday School. From the big screen, viewers ...

Over 70 years ago, several Gnostic texts were discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt. This gallery delves into the history of these ancient books and the controversy that surrounds them. Could they really ...

In December 1945 near Nag Hammadi, an Egyptian farmer unearthed an urn containing papyrus books later identified as the Gnostic Gospels. They included the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip and ...

The Lost Gospels, also known as the Gnostic Gospels, tell an entirely different story of Christianity and Jesus Christ. Discovered sealed within a set of jars in Egypt in 1945, they comprise 52 texts ...

The Da Vinci Code” book and movie have tapped into and further stimulated popular interest in accounts of Jesus that were never included in the Bible. The novel led many to believe that the New ...

In 1945 Egypt, a local farmer by the name of Muhammed al-Samman stumbled across a collection of scripts hidden inside a sealed jar. The texts looked ancient and were made up of 13 leather-bound ...