Jesus Christ in a Coptic icon. Jesus of Nazareth (7–2 BC / BCE —26–36 AD / CE) Christ is the English term for the Greek ( Khristós) meaning "the anointed " An icon (from Greek εἰκών eikōn, "image" is a religious work of art most commonly a painting from Eastern Christianity.

The term Coptic is derived from the Greek 'Aigyptos', 'Egypt', itself derived from ancient Egyptian 'Hwt-ka-Ptah', 'House of the 'ka' of Ptah', one of the temples in Memphis. A Copt ( Coptic: ouRemenkīmi enEkhristianos, literally Egyptian Christian) is a native Egyptian Christian. Memphis was the residence for large parts of Egyptian history, the reason why the name of one of the temples in the city could be used as the name of the country as a whole. Memphis was the ancient capitol of the first nome of Lower Egypt, and of the Old Kingdom of Egypt from its foundation until around 2200 BC and The history of Egypt is the longest continuous history as a unified state of any country in the world

Coptic Period is the phase of Egyptian Culture which lasted from the end of the Roman Period (end of the 3rd century AD) until the coming of Islam (AD 641). For other meanings including people named 'Islam' see Islam (disambiguation. This period is also called the Christian Period. In many books, the periods immediately before and after (the 3rd/4th century and the Middle Ages, respectively) are also called Coptic, and the Coptic form of Christianity (the so-called Monophysitism) still has many followers in the country. Monophysitism (from the Greek monos meaning 'one alone' and physis meaning 'nature' or Monophysiticism is the Christological position that