Talk:Meroë

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Im going therr tomorrow, will take a GPS reading from there or referenc if it helps?

WHL
"This site is not included on the World Heritage List as previously stated. The sites that are included can be seen at the following link: http://whc.unesco.org/sites/1073-loc.htm"

Cite?

 * ''It is supposed that West African people and Bantu got Iron techniques from Meroë.

Please feel free to cite an archaeological source for this claim as for now I have removed this entry because it seems to violate No original research policy..Mahmud II 20:26, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Meroe (Sudan_map_narrow)
here is a usefull link to locate  > Prof.Sherif (talk) 18:56, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
 * dear wikid i've found an error Sudan_map_narrow in the meroe article where you point the city of meroe in the northeast before atabra which is not correct it should be on the northwest of nile in northern state next to Karima Please correct it >
 * Meroe is situated at 33°44' E / 16°54' N according to the documents submitted 31/08/2004 by Dr. Salah M.Ahmed, Secr. Gen. Sudanese Nat. Comm. UNESCO, National Board for Antiquities and Museum. The "Island of Meroe" is a larger area covering many sites, bounded by the Atbara river, the White Nile and the Blue Nile.   Fconaway (talk) 22:42, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
 * A map by the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago (dated 1997) shows Meroe to the east of the Nile between Khartoum and Atbara., as does the map in the Cambridge History of Africa J. D. Fage, Roland Anthony Oliver, The Cambridge History of Africa: From C.500 BC to AD1050 Cambridge University Press (1979) ISBN 0521215927, p. 212]. Fconaway (talk) 00:06, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Ambiguity and confusion
I think that the topic of this article has been anglicized as Merowe at times, causing considerable confusion. The problem is compounded when referring to Merowian culture, e.g. in the captioning of archeological finds displayed in temporary exhibitions. I acquired expert knowledge of aspects of Nile geography in 1953, and this confusion perplexed me when looking at displays of recent excavations at the British Museum. Also, is there evidence that the inhabitants relocated to the "new" Merowe? This really needs input from an Egyptologist. Michael P. Barnett (talk) 11:45, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, just checked further. The editions of Encyclopedia Britannica and Encyclopedia Americana that I have at hand identify the site as Meroe, not Merowe, and use adjective Meroitic, not Merowitic. The (then proposed) Merowe dam was included in the computer simulations of the Nile in 1955 (not 1953). I am not qualified to comment on the accuracy of the article, but I see that it incorporates material from the 1911 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, and does not mention excavations made since 1910, just over a century ago. I believe that much more archaeological work has been done since then, including the discovery of Christian artefacts. I deleted the statement about inheriting the spelling from the Romans -- spelling is not "inherited" and the diaeresis was not used in Latin. I still thinks this needs input from an expert. Michael P. Barnett (talk) 16:29, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Map
The map needs updating (to reflect current Sudan division) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.140.19.92 (talk) 19:22, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Not just iron making
Aside from Iron making the Meroe were also involved in pottery making — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aaseym (talk • contribs) 21:15, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

"Meroitic: Medewi or Bedewi"
Any possible connection to Bedawi or Bedawi Arabic? 195.187.108.4 (talk) 08:36, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
 * In short: no. --Joostik (talk) 13:22, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Coordinate error
The following coordinate fixes are needed for

—Dthomsen8 (talk) 13:57, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
 * You haven't said what you think was wrong with the coordinates or what correction you're seeking. I've moved the coordinates a bit westward, but ancient Meroë apparently covered quite a bit of ground, from the surviving pyramids in the east to the Nile in the west. If you still think the coordinates are erroneous, please give a clear explanation of the problem below, and someone will be along to respond. Deor (talk) 20:05, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Meroe / Merowe
… when the Daju, who migrated from Meroe c.350 AD, were ruling. Are you quite sure you have the correct one? According to their respective Wikipedia entries: Meroë (/ˈmɛroʊeɪ/; also spelled Meroe;…) is an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, Not to be confused with Merowe, Sudan Merowe is a town in Northern State, Sudan, near Karima Town, about 330 kilometres (210 mi) north of Khartoum. ☺ Dick Kimball (talk) 13:54, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Quite so! To make things even more confusing - there are important 'pyramids' archaeological sites in Merowe/Karima area - Nuri, Jabel Barkal and El-Kurru. All three sites are covered in wikipedia. The other important thing is 'Meroe' is not equal 'Meroe Island' Titus Atomicus (talk) 19:50, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

It is plagiarism
…to fail to attribute content to the source from which it was taken. And the fact that material is in the public domain, by virtue of age, takes the material out of copyright protection, but it does not set aside the ethical imperative to tell your audience who it was that wrote the material you are using, at its first appearance. 'The earlier wholesale cut-and-paste plagiarism—of 2/3 of the 1911 Margoliouth article on Meroë, into the archaeology section of this article—has been expediently remedied by placing the whole cribbed portion into a long quote, and naming and citing the source. If you wish to paraphrase to remove the block quote, feel free, but you must thoroughly re-write the content; per the close paraphrasing guidelines, the earlier changed word or two is unacceptable. ' Bottom line, for this portion of the article, the place where purported facts came from is now clear, so the content is verifiable (i.e., in compliance with WP:VERIFY). Whatever further editing is done, the text must remain in compliance. Le Prof 73.210.155.96 (talk) 14:57, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

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How far is meroë from adula?
this is one that wasn't listed in the article, and just wanted to bring it up. 104.218.69.86 (talk) 21:33, 19 February 2024 (UTC)