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Ancient Egypt Mid‑importance

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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.

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Image needed[edit]

It would be great if this article on a paint color could provide an image showing the typical appearance of the applied paint, perhaps within the context of a work of art. Dtkirsch (talk) 21:59, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to add the standard color box shown on many pigment articles, but I can't find a reliable reference for the CMYK/HTML equivalents. Salmanazar (talk) 19:59, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is an image of painted out Mummy (from Roberson's bought in 1914 by E. W. Forbes) underneath the vertebra at the bottom of the page https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/a-pigment-from-the-depths. In addition, Mummy brown has never been definitively identified in a work of art. 1 June 2018

Popular culture[edit]

I know this is kind of a weird topic for a popular culture section, but should something be added from Ryan North's comic reference to this color? http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2051 Nosnevel (talk) 05:50, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Categories Suggestion[edit]

Should this page be added to Category:Organic_pigments? It was organic in the past, and several of the example images are from the era when it would have been made with organic material. Gargargarrick (talk) 06:04, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Wiki Education assignment: A History of Color[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 January 2023 and 4 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Stephanieeli (article contribs).

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"Medicinal qualities"[edit]

The page currently reads "Before "mummy brown" was used as a pigment, Egyptian mummies were known for their medicinal qualities.", were they ever actually known for having said qualities or were they just sold/marketed/etc as such? If not could be changed to "alleged medicinal qualities" 2600:1700:1930:D10:E99A:9995:ADFB:8BD7 (talk) 21:46, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]