What further brought the Egyptian Romans into isolation from Rome's culture and hastened the dissemination of Christianity was the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century . When Christianity propagated in
Egypt
, the Egyptian Pharaonic culture began to fade away: no-one could read the hieroglyphics since priests no longer functioned at the temples (which were either transferred into churches or abandoned to the desert) .
Being the second city of the empire ,
Alexandria
was fraught with religious controversies and rife with rifts . In response to the massacre of many Christians the Jews alleged , Cyril (the Patriarch of Alexandria) urged the city's governor to deport the Jews from Alexandria in 415 . Nevertheless , Egypt continued to supply the Empire and the Mediterranean region as a whole with much of its agricultural production and manufacturing prerequisites continuing to be an important center of scholarship .
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