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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.

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New hieroglyph template[edit]

I have created a new template at Template:Infobox hieroglyphs based on its German wiki equivalent which enables article titles to be displayed in hieroglyphs and other scripts as desired.

In addition there is a temporary one at Template:Infobox Hieroglyphen to facilitate the copying of existing infoboxes from German Wikipedia with minimum knowledge of German and display them in English Wikipedia.

Please check out the infoboxes; if they are felt useful I am happy to fine tune them. --Bermicourt (talk) 18:22, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Revert[edit]

I reverted back to the last change prior to some one adding "I like big butts". I am sorry I was not logged in when I did the revert. Cougaria kit (talk) 19:32, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reverting. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:39, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

radiometric data[edit]

Some time back I posted a link to an article from Archaeometry about radiometric dating showing that if the Hyksos reign came to an end with Thera, Ahmose's dates have to move back to just before 1600 BCE. Here is another article with radiometric information which should be taken into consideration. Go down to Nadine Moeller's contribution. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/675069 71.163.117.143 (talk) 00:33, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Things to do[edit]

should just be removed. "guy on the phone"?????? we can use the talk page to plan future work. Cosprings (talk) 13:32, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sennefer, Chancellor against Senneferi[edit]

Both articles are about the same person. I think Sennefer, Chancellor should be deleted. How can this been done? -- Udimu (talk) 16:56, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Status report from the Portals WikiProject[edit]

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From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject. — The Transhumanist 03:21, 30 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion not by purpose[edit]

Sorry! Thanks for reverting! --Vollbracht (talk) 02:28, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Huni in Saqqara King List[edit]

A21 A25 A23

In Saqqara King List the name of Huni is given on a picture using A21 while on Huni page it's given with A25. In fact when looking at a very old photograph ("Saqqara-deRouge.jpg") it gets obvious that this hieroglyph depicts an upright standing human. The most fitting one is A23 among those in Gardiner list - by view and by meaning. So which one may be valued as correct on a scientific base? (no regard of face direction) Unfortunately I have no high-res photo of the stones. --Vollbracht (talk) 01:16, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Shift Infobox styles into css file[edit]

In German wiki I just developed a module being able to write vertical cartouches. I will port this here. It will use an Egyptology/styles.css file as a template style sheet. This sheet is meant to control several aspects of designing pages in our Wikiproject and to support all future Egyptology templates. --Vollbracht (talk) 01:16, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Deleting of categories[edit]

Can you all @Furius:, @Dimadick:, @Cote d'Azur:, @Doug Weller:, @Iry-Hor: check out here, there is a deleting of categories going onːWikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 December 4...Udimu (talk) 10:06, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]