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Nag Hammadi | a town in Upper Egypt | ||
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Nag Hammadi, Nag Hammadi Library | a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism |