Talk:Coffin of Nedjemankh

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A fact from Coffin of Nedjemankh appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 March 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that shortly after purchasing the coffin of Nedjemankh (pictured) for $4 million, the Metropolitan Museum of Art decided to return it to Egypt?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Coffin of Nedjemankh.

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Wiki Education assignment: ANTH 420 Museum Anthropology[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 January 2023 and 2 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Abbymar1416 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Coryannyyz (talk) 14:31, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education Assignment: Contributions as of 04/28[edit]

For this article I have made the following changes:

Added information to lengthen the Lead section
In the "Description" section of the article, I have added information regarding who Nedjemankh was when they were alive and the significance of the inscriptions on this coffin in relation to Egyptian mythology, the Book of the Dead, and Egyptian burial ritual.
In the "Provenance" section of the article, I have included information about the international investigation surrounding the illegal exportation of the Coffin of Nedjemankh and the people involved.
Throughout the article I have made improvements in terms of grammar.
I have added several new, credible sources.
I have added more internal links to other Wikipedia pages.

In terms of what could still be done to this article, I believe that there could be a few more images to liven it up (i.e.,close-ups of the inscriptions). The only images available through Openverse were the ones already shown in the article, plus a mirror of the photo used at the beginning under "Coffin of Nedjemankh." It would be beneficial to have information on where the coffin was looted from, but I had a difficult time locating any information on this. As I continue to work on this article at the conclusion of the class, these will be the two things that I focus on. Abbymar1416 (talk) 00:37, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]