Editing Nag Hammadi (section)

==History==
The town of Nag Hammadi was found on the site of older villages Ansan ({{Langx|ar|انسان}}) and al-Luaqi ({{Langx|ar|اللواقي}})<ref>{{Cite web |date=1818 |title=Carte geographique de l'Egypte et des pays environnans by Pierre Jacotin |url=https://atlas.paths-erc.eu/map/saved/all_ms_places |website=PAThs – Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature}}</ref> in the 19th century and was named after its founder, Mahmoud Pasha Hammadi, a member of the Hammadi family in [[Sohag]], [[Egypt]]. Mahmoud Pasha Hammadi was a major landholder in Sohag, and known for his strong opposition to the [[History of Egypt under the British|British rule in Egypt]] beginning in 1882.

In the city of Nag Hammadi, there is the palace of Prince Youssef Kamal, a member of the royal family (the family of [[Muhammad Ali of Egypt|Muhammad Ali Pasha]]), which overlooks the Nile River and is now an archaeological site.<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 October 2019 |title=Nag Hammadi palace re-opens |url=https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1207/352024/AlAhram-Weekly/Heritage/Nag-Hammadi-palace-reopens.aspx |access-date=27 October 2023 |website=Ahram Online}}</ref>

Nag Hammadi is about {{convert|5|km}} west of ancient [[Sheneset-Chenoboskion|Chenoboskion]] ({{langx|grc|Χηνοβόσκιον}})
The "[[Nag Hammadi library]]", an important collection of 2nd-century [[Gnostic texts]], was found at 
[[Jabal al-Ṭārif]] near Nag Hammadi in 1945.<ref name="NHL">{{cite book |author=James M. Robinson |year=1988 |title=The Nag Hammadi Library |publisher=Harper San Francisco |location=San Francisco}}. "The Nag Hammadi Library consists of twelve books, plus eight leaves removed from a thirteenth book in late antiquity and tucked inside the front cover of the sixth. These eight leaves comprise a complete text, an independent treatise taken out of a book of collected essays". (p. 10).
{{cite web|url=http://www.nag-hammadi.com/|title=nag-hammadi.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070408060536/http://www.nag-hammadi.com/|archive-date=2007-04-08}}</ref>

The city was the site of the [[Nag Hammadi Massacre]] in January 2010, in which eight [[Copts|Coptic]] [[Christianity|Christians]] were shot dead by three men.<ref name="catastrophe">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8478397.stm "Egypt's anxious Copts 'await next catastrophe{{'"}}] (25 January 2010) BBC News</ref> In total, nineteen Coptic Christians were attacked.<ref name="catastrophe"/><ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8444851.stm | work=BBC News | title=Egypt church attack kills Copts | date=2010-01-07}}</ref>