Talk:Ancient art

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Title?
Shouldn't the title of this article be something simpler, such as "Ancient art"? I was under the impression that the title of Wikipedia pages should reflect the most common or natural reference for the subject, whenever possible, while still retaining accuracy. "Arts of the ancient world" seems needlessly flowery, and I wouldn't expect very many people to type that exact phrasing in when looking for this page (especially versus something simple like "Ancient art" or "Ancient art history"). Thoughts?

Mineralogy 04:22, 31 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Making same proposal elswhere. --Amandajm 05:49, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

I just added a new section for China
--PericlesofAthens 22:55, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:20, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Celtic Art
For some reason this sophisticated branch of ancient art has been ignored altogether. There are already informative articles on the La Tene period and Celtic Art as a whole, so it shouldn't be hard for someone with more time to incorporate. I'd suggest the Battersea shield as a visual example.

82.69.106.43 (talk) 16:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Ancient Babylon Hairstyle
IT WAS NUMBER TWO ON MY DICK —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.44.68.152 (talk) 16:36, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Hello
I love art — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.183.127.156 (talk) 21:15, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Improvements Needed
I added a flag for copy editing and cleaned up the first few sections of this article to remove duplicate information, as well as information that was irrelevant to the topic. There is a lot of room for improvement here. --Rosemoonglade (talk) 15:34, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
 * There is certainly "a lot of room for improvement here", but your tag is unlikely to help. You introduced WP:ENGVAR inconsistency, and so on. Where there was "duplicate information", removing both mentions may not be the best course. Johnbod (talk) 17:21, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

Irrelevant info in Mesopotamia section?
None of the information under Mesopotamia preceding Sumer seems to be relevant article. It's mostly history of the region's various empires and rulers, which none of the other regions in this article have. Is it safe to nix those three paragraphs? Syd Kidney (talk) 01:57, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

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 * Front views of the Venus de Milo.jpg