This is the title of two different apocryphal works.
The first Gospel of the Egyptians is a Greek work from the second century AD. Early church writers such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen mentioned it. The book was read mainly in Egypt and probably spread Gnostic teachings. Gnostics were groups who believed that people could be saved through secret spiritual knowledge rather than through faith in Christ.
This Gospel especially reflected ideas taught in Syria by Simon and Menander. These teachers claimed that marriage, eating meat, and having children were wrong. Clement of Alexandria may have quoted from this book to oppose the Encratites, who shared similar views. The negative view of women held by these Gnostics is clear in the quotes Clement recorded.
The second Gospel of the Egyptians was discovered in Chenoboskion, Egypt, in 1946. It is part of the Nag Hammadi collection, a group of Gnostic writings found in Coptic translation. The main title of the work is The Sacred Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, but a line at the end calls it The Gospel of the Egyptians.
The book describes emanations (spiritual beings or powers that come from a higher divine source) originating from “the Primal Spirit of the cosmos.” It may have come from a Barbelo Gnostic group, which focused on a divine figure named Barbelo.