The Codex Tchacos is an ancient Egyptian Coptic papyrus document containing early Christian Gnostic texts: Coptic is an adjective referring to the original inhabitants of Egypt, the Copts. ... Papyrus plant Cyperus papyrus at Kew Gardens, London Papyrus is an early form of paper made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that grows to 5 meters (15 ft) in height and was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

• The Gospel of Judas
• The First Apocalypse of James
• The Letter of Peter to Philip
• A fragment of Allogenes

It is important because it contains the first known surviving text of the Gospel of Judas, a text that was supressed by Christian Orthodoxy 1700 years before its rediscovery. The Gospel of Judas is a document that was in use among the Cainites, an early Christian gnostic sect, which was published in 2006 after being partially reconstructed. ... Introduction The First Apocalypse (which means revelation or vision) of James, part of the New Testament apocrypha, was first discovered amongst 52 other Gnostic Christian texts spread over 13 Codices by an Arab peasant, Mohammad Ali al-Samman, in the Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi late in December 1945. ... The Letter of Peter to Philip found in the cache of texts at Nag Hammadi (bound into Codex VIII), contains a brief letter purporting to be from Saint Peter to Saint Philip, followed by a narrative and gnostic discourse upon the nature of Christ. ... Allogenes is a sethian gnostic text from the New Testament apocrypha. ...

The codex was discovered near El Minya, in Egypt, during the 1970s but was not examined and translated until 2001, when the owner transferred it to the Maecenas Foundation for Ancient Art in Basel, Switzerland. It is named after Dimaratos Tchacos, the father of the dealer who purchased the document in September 2000. first page of the Codex Argenteus A codex (Latin for book; plural codices) is a handwritten book from late Antiquity or the Early Middle Ages. ... Basel (English traditionally: Basle [ba:l], German: Basel [ba:z@l], French Bâle [ba:l], Italian Basilea [bazilE:a]) is Switzerlands third most populous city (188,000 inhabitants in the canton of Basel-City as of 2004; the 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate...

In April 2006, a complete translation of the text, with extensive footnotes, was released by the National Geographic Society: The Gospel Of Judas (ISBN 1-4262-0042-0, April 2006). National Geographic, which played a large part in the restoration and conservation of the codex, has also created a two hour television documentary, The Gospel of Judas, airing worldwide on the National Geographic Channel on April 9, 2006. Flag of the National Geographic Society The llNational Geographic Society was founded in the United States on January 27, 1888, by 33 men interested in organizing a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge. ... The National Geographic Channel is a subscription television network that features documentaries produced by the National Geographic Society. ...

See also

• Gospel of Judas

The Gospel of Judas is a document that was in use among the Cainites, an early Christian gnostic sect, which was published in 2006 after being partially reconstructed. ...

External links

• http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/about_faq.html