Discovered in 1945 near the town of Nag Hammadi in Egypt, the Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of ancient texts that has ...

The discovery at Nag Hammadi began with an Arab villager whose ... And, curious, he kept digging, and he was startled to find a six foot jar sealed. And next to it was buried a corpse.

The discovery of the Nag Hammadi collection brought ancient Gnostic writings to light. In 1945 an Arab peasant named Muhammed Ali and his brothers discovered a jar at the base of a cliff near the ...