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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.

This page ought to be subject to serious review, since I had to remove a number of Afrocentrist sources that provide historically dubious claims that rely on spurious historiography, as well as a number of unsourced claims that were either demonstrably false or added nothing of substance to the article.

Furthermore, if any reputable work were to be added, it would amount to an explanation that 'Ancient Egyptian philosophy' bore little relation to Ancient Greek philosophy, there is no evidence that Ancient Greek philosophy was indebted to Ancient Egyptian philosophy, beliefs to the contrary are due to reliance on the work of historical revisionists that engage in wild conjecture without historical basis or on disreputable Ancient Greek sources like Diogenes Laertius.

Lastly, the very understanding of extant 'Ancient Egyptian philosophy' would better be understood as guides to social mores (the didactic texts known as 'instructions'), state ideology ('Maat'), theology, and early cosmology and cosmogony. In the surviving texts there is no critical discussion between differing schools, no exegesis, or argumentation. Theology and etiquette does not conform to what either the Western or Eastern traditions consider philosophy.