Egypt wants ancient Christian ruins off UNESCO’s list of sites in danger

Egypt has drained the groundwater that had collected below a centuries-old Christian site in a bid to get it removed from the United Nations cultural agency’s list of endangered world heritage sites.

Senior Egyptian antiquities officials and Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox pope, Tawadros II, toured the area near the coastal city of Alexandria on Tuesday.

The historical area centers around Saint Menas, who died in the early days of Christianity…