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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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Latest comment: 9 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The paragraph on Zenodotus as Alexandrian librarian may be spurious; unlike the rest of the article it does not appear in EB1911 or the new EB, and surely it must refer to the Zenodotus of Alexandria mentioned in the text. Yet this does conflate them, and the dates could credibly overlap. Could they be the same person after all? Does anyone have any other source? David Brooks (talk) 21:09, 24 September 2014 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 6 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
I may be off here, but I am almost entirely certain that the lowercase Greek letters were not invented at that time, and would not be for centuries to come - hence, how could he have used non-existing letters to number books of the Odyssey? That seems very strange. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.156.126.230 (talk) 09:19, 20 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
The comment above is right. In this period the Greek alphabet only had what are now regarded as uppercase letters. The use of letters to number the books of the Homeric poems is indeed ancient, but the use of uppercase letters for the Iliad and lowercase letters for the Odyssey is a modern convention. I don't know if it's found before the age of printing at all. The statement in the article is incorrect. 157.138.17.25 (talk) 08:20, 22 September 2017 (UTC)Reply
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