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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.

Venus or not?[edit]

Refrences to Spodu on other Wikipages keep saying it was name for Venus. But on it's own page here I see no references to Venus?--JaredMithrandir (talk) 18:42, 30 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

JaredMithrandir: I would guess that's inaccurate. I can't find a reference in my sources that ties Sopdu to Venus, although I think his mother Sopdet can sometimes be Venus. See Eye of Ra#Solar for a little of the background on that subject. A. Parrot (talk) 02:02, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm starting to wonder how plausible an association with Aquilla might be given his tendency to be depicted as a Falcon?--JaredMithrandir (talk) 10:08, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

JaredMithrandir: It's unlikely. Aside from Orion (Sah), the Egyptians didn't draw the same constellations in the sky as the Greeks did. Many of the constellations they drew haven't been definitively matched with the stars. There's even a lion constellation in a sphinx position that's widely assumed to be Leo but (if what I read somewhere or other is correct) the two don't actually match. Making sense of ancient Egyptian astronomy is difficult. A. Parrot (talk) 01:28, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ah yes, I remember now that I had heard the Dendre Zodiad had a bird headed person where Ophichus usually is, but I was never able to verify that either. Even Sah isn't entirely the same as Orion since Sah isn't a hunter.--JaredMithrandir (talk) 16:29, 4 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]