Talk:Papyri (chronology)

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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.

List of Egyptian papyri by date

How about moving this to List of Egyptian papyri by date? It would be a better, self-describing title. JoaoRicardo^talk 04:31, 14 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I will do that right now. It's nice to have some input, at the very beginning. Thanks. MichaelMcAnnis,YumaARIZMmcannis 01:42, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Give me a couple of days to think about this. The Papyri are not only Egyptian, (though 95 % will be Egyptian).MMcAnnisMmcannis 01:51, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To say this list is chronological is misleading, since the order reflects the historical settings of the texts on the papyri, rather than the age of the papyri themselves. For example, P. Westcar was made c.1650 BC, but the tale on it is set in the 4th dynasty.