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Ancient Egypt

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WikiProject Ancient Egypt to-do list:

Needed articles.

We should have an article on every pyramid and every nome in Ancient Egypt. I'm sure the rest of us can think of other articles we should have.

Cleanup.

To start with, most of the general history articles badly need attention. And I'm told that at least some of the dynasty articles need work. Any other candidates?

Standardize the Chronology.

A boring task, but the benefit of doing it is that you can set the dates !(e.g., why say Khufu lived 2589-2566? As long as you keep the length of his reign correct, or cite a respected source, you can date it 2590-2567 or 2585-2563)

Stub sorting

Anyone? I consider this probably the most unimportant of tasks on Wikipedia, but if you believe it needs to be done . . .

Data sorting.

This is a project I'd like to take on some day, & could be applied to more of Wikipedia than just Ancient Egypt. Take one of the standard authorities of history or culture -- Herotodus, the Elder Pliny, the writings of Breasted or Kenneth Kitchen, & see if you can't smoothly merge quotations or information into relevant articles. Probably a good exercise for someone who owns one of those impressive texts, yet can't get access to a research library.

Egypt

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Africa

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Tomb of Kha and Merit is at FAC

Any comments, critiques, or feedback are welcome over at the nomination page. Merytat3n (talk) 00:21, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested creation of a page for the god Harsomtus

Harsomtus is a god from Egyptian mythology that is the son of Horus and Hathor that I believe deserves an article and vector however, I do not have the skill or the free time to do either and would like someone else to create them PharaohCrab (talk) 16:48, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Artaxerxes III

Artaxerxes III has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 22:56, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Siege of Naqada

Hello! Though not a member of this WikiProject, I have always been interested in Ancient Egyptian history, and got a bit confused yesterday when I stumbled on "Siege of Naqada", an article created at the start of this year. I have read a number of books covering Naqada III, and all of them have argued that we have basically no firm proof for actual military campaigns under Scorpion I (or even for the exact position/power/role of Scorpion I) despite the existence of the Theban Desert Road Survey graffito. Yet this article claims that, somehow, we know about a specific siege, the commanders, and even the numbers of the involved troops? Has there been some kind of breakthrough in archaeology or is this a case of WP:OR? Applodion (talk) 17:10, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's unfortunate nobody replied to you. I've never read any books on ancient Egypt myself, but all does seem very suspicious. I think a case could be made for throwing it to WP:AFD. Koopinator (talk) 14:10, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is this change at Dendera light justified?

[1] I see we don't even seem to have a source for the translation. Doug Weller talk 10:24, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

if there is no source then I guess not. but it is worth talking to them to see if they can provide a source. PharaohCrab (talk) 12:30, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thanks. Doug Weller talk 12:48, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This might have it."Die Texte in den unteren Krypten des Hathortempels von Dendera: ihre Aussagen zur Funktion und Bedeutung dieser Räume [The texts in the lower crypts of the Hathor temples of Dendera: their statements for the function and meaning of these areas " Doug Weller talk 12:56, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Remove "____ equivalent" fields from Template:Infobox deity?

What do editors think of the idea of removing the "____ equivalent" fields (eg. "Greek_equivalent", "Norse_equivalent", "Hinduism_equivalent", etc.) from Template:Infobox deity? Input at Template talk:Infobox deity would be appreciated. – Michael Aurel (talk) 23:33, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]