The Higher Council for Culture organized its first two-day symposium titled “Coptic Monuments of Egypt,” which was attended by many professors and research specialists. Abu Al-Hamad Farghali, a professor at the Faculty of Antiquities at Cairo University, explained that a large number of Coptic manuscripts decorated with sophisticated illustrations were produced during the Fatimid period. The Egyptians continued writing in Coptic script throughout the rule of successive Islamic dynasties in Egypt.