Talk:Myos Hormos

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Merger proposal[edit]

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The result was not merged. P Aculeius presents a well-argued case against the merge, and no supporters have come forward in two months. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 19:12, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Since the present city of El Qoseir stands on the location of ancient Myos Hormos, I think the Myos Hormos article should be merged into the the El Qoseir one. Antiquistik (talk) 23:19, 10 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose for the same basic reasons that the proposal to delete Thymiaterium was closed. We have two articles, one on an ancient port, and one on a modern city (to which material from Myos Hormos was recently added). There's no obvious continuity between the two, even if we accept as certain that the two occupy the same location; both articles indicate some level of uncertainty, although elsewhere it's stated as definite—I note that the map accompanying the Myos Hormos article shows it a hundred and fifty miles further north. But if Myos Hormos was abandoned in the fourth or fifth century, and El Qoseir didn't begin to develop significantly until the seventeenth century, then they can't really be the same city, even if they share the same location. One is a modern town, the other an archaeological site. The argument to keep them separate is even stronger than in the case of Thymiaterium, since much of the argument about that article concerned the fact that it was an article stub. Myos Hormos is not a stub, but a well-sourced article with likely potential for expansion. Just as we have separate articles about ancient places and the modern cities that have been built on top of them—or even share a high degree of continuity with them—it makes sense to maintain separate articles for an archaeological site and a modern town, each of which can be expanded and developed further without conflicting with one another. They may properly link to one another, but they do not need to be merged. P Aculeius (talk) 12:53, 11 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Maps[edit]

The place is locvated differently on the two maps. Wouldn't it be possible to resolve that? --Maltebruessel (talk) 00:37, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]