Coptic textiles, objects and small sculptures appear from time to time in specialty galleries and at auctions.

A remarkable number of Coptic textiles survive today, due to the Coptic custom of burying them with the dead, and to the aridity of Egyptian graves.

The early Coptic textiles still produced pictures and decoration incorporating Egyptian and Greek motifs.

Later coptic textiles showed the influence of Byzantium and later, Islamic art.

Other objects in the collection include "Sumerian cuneiform tablets, Greek pottery, Coptic textiles, and more than 400 Egyptian objects, including a late Dynastic mummy and coffin."

Its 4000 items range from 4th-century Coptic textiles to 20th- century local embroidery, but best is the big collection of clothing from the 16th century to the 1930s.

He loved, studied and collected Oriental rugs, and titled "Coptic Light" with reference to Coptic textiles he had seen at the Louvre.

After seeing the museum, the visitor could do much worse than wander for a little while in the warren of tiny streets, for the past lives on here just as it does in the stelae and the Coptic textiles.

A small but choice selection of Coptic textiles in the Newark Museum is changed every six months.

The ancient fragments of Coptic textiles in the Newark Museum are small, intimate and elegant.