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HISTORY This Week — Egypt’s Last Hieroglyph and the Fiery Archbishop of Alexandria
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Egypt’s Last Hieroglyph and the Fiery Archbishop of Alexandria

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August 24, 394. On the walls of a fading Egyptian temple, a priest carves what will become the last known hieroglyph in history. At the same moment, in Alexandria, a fiery archbishop named Theophilus is rising to power. He mocks the ancient Egyptian gods, desecrates their temples, and sets out to stamp out “paganism”…

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