Talk:Egyptian astronomy

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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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i think there could be a religion subcategory added right after the Ancient Egypt title. Kbkckd (talk) 16:43, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"The constellation system used among the Egyptians also appears to have been essentially of native origin." Very vague statement. Why does it appear to "have been essentially of native origin."? What is the native origin if not Egyptians? Is there a source for this conclusion? Spike64113 (talk) 17:53, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"In the 20th century, Farouk El-Baz from Egypt worked for NASA and was involved in the first Moon landings with the Apollo program, where he was secretary of the Landing Site Selection Committee, Principal Investigator of Visual Observations and Photography, chairman of the Astronaut Training Group, and assisted in the planning of scientific explorations of the Moon, including the selection of landing sites for the Apollo missions and the training of astronauts in lunar observations and photography." This is "modern Egyptian Astronomy" and not very relevant to the topic of the article. In the least, should have a separate header. Spike64113 (talk) 18:06, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Spike64113: @Kbkckd: Just an fyi, add "== (Insert title of section here) ==" on talk pages to separate sections. This way it's easier to see when new sections are created. Emk9 (talk) 22:54, 17 February 2018 (UTC) where is your citations for this paper — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.63.29.170 (talk) 02:34, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]