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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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What does the 25th Dynasty of Egypt (700s-600s BC), have to do with the Kingdom of Kerma (ends c.1000 BC)? Yes they were from Nubia, but they can't have been from the by-then-abandoned Kerma. Furius (talk) 03:42, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

age[edit]

Need to fix the age. According to Geoff Emberling, by 2000 BCE "the city of Kerma itself was a large urban center built around an imposing mud-brick temple complex known as the Western Deffufa." This would just replace the 9000 year old figure, which was confusing. Uses the same source. Dougweller (talk) 13:21, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Kerma as the kings of Napatan Kush cemetery?[edit]

"After the sacking of Kerma, the cemetery was used to host the kings of Napatan Kush from Upper (Southern) Nubia." I doubt it's correct. Can anybody confirm that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Titus Atomicus (talk • contribs) 16:05, 25 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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In the second paragraph under "Bioarchaeology", there seems to be a personal argument on the topic of human sacrifice (use of the first-person pronoun, and more.) Not sure how to edit: should this paragraph just be deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:30A:C05D:2B90:B529:E2A4:5837:EC3C (talk) 02:00, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]