Talk:Foreign contacts of 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.

Roy Lee[edit]

The only author of content on this page has used wikipedia to push an anti-scientific and not-accurate POV. Please see Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Roylee. Hipocrite - «Talk» 03:54, 27 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment[edit]

I just found this page, & was surprised that the controversy surrounding both it & its contributer was not posted to Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt. (Just a suggestion in the future.)

As to the content of the article itself, while I find its content rather sketchy & in need of augmenting, I don't see anything wrong with it after a first read. Ancient Egypt despite common assumptions did have contacts with the world beyond from the Old Kingdom on, as shown by finds over eastern Africa, the Middle East, & the eastern Mediterranean. Byblos was an important intermediary for Egypt, for example, & a casual read of Hittite articles in Wikipedia find proof that the first international treaties involved Egypt as a party.

That said, I'm not clear as to the point of this article. Was it written to combat this common misunderstanding, or to advocate some specific POV? In either case, I don't see a clear reason to keep the disputed tag on this article. -- llywrch 19:19, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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