Talk:Westcar Papyrus

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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.

Gibberish

Chunks of this article are scarcely in English and are in desperate need of revision. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.168.28.33 (talk) 11:34, 8 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate entry

There are two entries for this papyrus: Westcar Papyrus and Papyrus Westcar. Needs merging. User:FeanorStar7

Verification

This article was initiated by an anonymous user with a strong history of vandalism. Can someone please verify the existence of this topic and the accuracy of the current content? If we do not can not cite definitive sources, this article may have to be nominated for deletion. Rossami (talk) 23:30, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mushrooms and Lichtheim

The Lichtheim quote was from [1] and was by our guidelines a copyright violation. The mushroom stuff though interesting was covered in too much detail. A couple of sentences would be enough unless anyone can find some reliable sources discussing Berlant's hypothesis. Berlant raised it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ancient Egypt and of course there is a COI problem, it shouldn't be here without discussion in the first place. Dougweller (talk) 18:03, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My personal question is: Does an exyclopedia really need such psychodelic drug-trash? Besides: Neither Lichtheim nor Lepper write anything about psychedelic drugs or even shrooms. --Nephiliskos (talk) 12:52, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Other than such speculation there seems to be no actual evidence that Egyptians used or wrote about mushrooms - I'm not convinced it does belong here at all. Dougweller (talk) 13:37, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]