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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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Unrealistic, by whose standards?

Second paragraph states: "Unrealistic"

By whose standards? And what is the evidence that the Egyptian art was totally unrealistic? No sources are given, thus the statement in the Wikipedia article is speculation and subjective and not an academically sound insertion into a Wikipedia article.

Better: Some Egyptian art was based on real life people and experiences, while as occurs in Art in all nations, some art is based on mythology, fantasy, future objectives. 38.15.238.229 (talk) 10:11, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry this has been debunked

"Studies based on morphological, genetic, and archaeological data have attributed these settlements to migrants from the Fertile Crescent returning during the Neolithic Revolution, bringing agriculture to the region. Merimde culture (5000–4200 B)"

This has been replaced with the Neolithic egyptians being indigenous 2601:444:880:F890:B6D2:B271:C34:E70 (talk) 22:25, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The racism here on this page is disgusting.

"the black pharoahs" of the 25th dynasty. Are you serious?? 2601:444:880:F890:B6D2:B271:C34:E70 (talk) 22:35, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt - the term is a common one, and the period much celebrated by Afrocentrism etc. There is some dispute over the term, but it is hardly racist to use it. Johnbod (talk) 16:22, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article is in serious need of citations

The entire introductory section lacks any cited sources. This is especially relevant to claims like the following passage:

"The ancient Egyptian language had no word for "art". Artworks served an essentially functional purpose that was bound with religion and ideology. To render a subject in art was to give it permanence. Therefore, ancient Egyptian art portrayed an idealized, unrealistic view of the world. There was no significant tradition of individual artistic expression since art served a wider and cosmic purpose of maintaining order (Ma'at)."

Presently, this is an unasserted claim and it would be helpful if sources were provided to justify this information remaining on the page. If all the unsupported text is meant to be supported by the first listed article by Redford, noted in the Pre-Dynastic Period section, then the formatting should be updated to clarify this. Zefferinn (talk) 10:12, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]