Talk:Ghosts in ancient Egyptian culture

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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.

Ghost of my big fat greek wedding[edit]

Caldecott's book is fiction. The link suggests it has authority; is this then a good or weak citation? Manytexts (talk) 12:57, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. Why is a work of fiction being cited as evidence of claims to an actual experience?

Details not provided for tenuous statement[edit]

"Similar concepts have been observed in Indonesia and in the Solomon Islands, possibly transferred by travellers in the ancient world.[3]" This has a reference but doesn't cite the details as to why this similarity in concepts might be transmitted knowledge. Without any evidence being cited it's just conjecture of a very loose nature. Any details as to the evidence or reasoning given in the referenced publication should be added to the article or this line should be stripped out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.31.40.244 (talk) 03:10, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It has been suggested that this article be merged with Egyptian soul.[edit]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was to merge. MartinZ02 (talk) 23:54, 8 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the idea that this article should be merged with the article 'Egyptian soul'. That article covers everything that this one does more completely and more clearly. Egyptian cultural concepts of ghosts only have meaning within an understanding of the ancient Egyptians concepts of the soul, so this article need not exist separately. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.31.40.244 (talk) 03:30, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.