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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.

Larger version of the Rodah Nilometer

For a larger version of the Rodah Nilometer: LoC 72.184.44.68 (talk) 01:17, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Useful data on the rise of the Nile

For useful data on the rise of the Nile: with tables of lowest & highest water level at places on the Amietta & Rosetta branches and a table of lowest & highest water level at the Rodah Nilometer during 58 years (1882), see [1]. [Unsigned addition, from IP 72.184.44.68, 01:17, 27 April 2008‎ ]

Moving citation here, because text not verifiable from this single inline citation

The following reference:

Bar Hebraeus, Chronicon Ecclesiasticum, i. 373

appeared following this sentence:

"While this nilometer dates only as far back as AD 861, when the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil ordered its construction, it was built on a site occupied by an earlier specimen which was seen by the Syrian Orthodox patriarch Dionysius of Tel Mahre in 830."

The Latin for this patriarch's name is Dionysius Telmaharensis and a search for it in the Latin portion of Vol. 1 of the cited Chronicon Ecclesiasticum gave two page locations, neither of which correspond in any way to the "373" appearing in the citation. (Found were appearances in Latin section 308 on p. 296, and Latin section 364 on p. 324.) Moreover, there is no apparent mention of "Mutawakkil" (see Al-Mutawakkil here at WP), who is the second principal agent represented in this sentence in this reference.

Bottom line, either the reference was simply intended as a further reference to the patriarch's name, cut-and-pasted from elsewhere, and so functioning like a low value wikilink (to a Latin-Syriac text), or the citation presented above and formerly in the article is incomplete, making its trace to this particular source version unhelpful (see [2] for the version searched).

Regardless, information in the sentence shown cannot be traced to this source—not by me, and certainly not by most other editors—and so the source is moved here as the print equivalent of a dead link. If I am wrong in this analysis, please let me know, but as the only inline citation appearing in the article, it was worth checking for its veracity.

In short, the article—10 paragraphs, 25 sentences—had only this inline citation, and even the one was useless to verify anything of the article's content. Bon chance to any that wish to take this further. I am content to say the article is unsourced, the crux of which has been noted for this article since May 2010. Cheers. Le Prof. Leprof 7272 (talk) 05:56, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: 311_History of Ancient Egypt

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 9 January 2024 and 22 March 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Tson21 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Piesu123, Madrugada11.

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