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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.

Ensigns for infobox

The ensigns are too modern.

Fixed. --Philly boy92 (talk) 00:13, 22 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't add infoboxes to ancient ships like this. They are so completely geared towards modern vessels that they only wind up repeating the few, sketchily understood facts about ships from an age when schematics, standard measurements and accurate depictions simply didn't exist.

Peter ^Isotalo 18:12, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And ...?

Why did it only sail once? What happened to it? Kdammers (talk) 05:01, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Missing poing

I am missing the point of this. What was the purpose of this ship? Tomeasy_{T C} 19:47, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

She was a passenger and cargo ship. It's in the article. --Michail (blah) 20:45, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Which Ptolemy got the present?

In the intro, it says "whereupon she was given as a present to Ptolemy II.[2]", but in the first paragraph of the main text, it says "where she was later given to Ptolemy (Ptolemaios) III Euergetes of Egypt..." Some book sources I've looked at suggest it was Ptolemy III, but I'm not 100% certain. 82.71.0.229 (talk) 09:26, 8 February 2019 (UTC) I checked another source (Art in the Hellenistic Age By Jerome Jordan Pollitt p281) that seems to suggest it was one or other of the Ptolemies, but that which is unknown.82.71.0.229 (talk) 09:30, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Fate?

As with most things from antiquity, it's likely that it was lost to the sands of time, but do we know what happened to the ship? Even a short note to the effect of "it is unknown what happened to it after [period]..." would be nice to have in the article. Opencooper (talk) 03:51, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The image/design of the boat used for this artcile is the same as the one for caligulas giant ship

The image/design of the boat used for this artcile is the same as the one for caligulas giant ship ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula%27s_Giant_Ship ) the boat design cant be the same for both articles surely, i wonder which one is the "correct" image... Jepst (talk) 11:28, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This page is correct - if you follow the links through to the copy of the book on archive.org, the text above the image reads "Navis Hieronis: 't Schip van Hiero." The mistake seems to have been introduced by The Telegraph, who used the image above an article on Caligula's boat. Furius (talk) 12:45, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]