sentences:  The name of the city is derived from its Ancient Egyptian name "Men'at Khufu", meaning the nursing city of Khufu, linking it to the Pharaoh Khufu or Cheops, builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza.The name Minya may also have originated from the city's name in Sahidic Coptic "Tmoone" and in Bohairic "Thmonē", meaning "the residence", in reference to an early monastery formerly in the area.It is the city where the Codex Tchacos was discovered.