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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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A fact from Egyptian mythology appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 January 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that in Egyptian mythology, the Eye of Ra slaughtered masses of people, got drunk, ran away from her owner, and was brought back by her husband?
The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the pages at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 01:41, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ribbet32: There is not. Nor do modern Egyptians build temples that are called temples (they're called churches and mosques). The consistency argument, however, cuts both ways. As I said, nearly all articles on general ancient Egyptian topics are titled this way. A. Parrot (talk) 14:12, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I think this should be decided by a source-check, if any one wants to do one. I've almost never heard of "Ancient Roman mythology" or "Ancient Greek mythology", but I'm not entirely comfortable saying the same about "Ancient Egyptian mythology". Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 07:17, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose There may be modern Egyptian myths, but the subject had little notability compared to the ancient ones. Nine Zulu queens (talk) 11:49, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per WP:CONCISE. "Mythology" and "temples" inherently imply that it is ancient history.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 00:59, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Zxcvbnm: I don't understand your rationale: if CONCISE applied here wouldn't it apply all the more to Slavery in ancient Egypt? I'm pretty sure slavery is illegal in modern Egypt like most of the rest of the world; conversely, "mythology" doesn't simply "ancient" at all, and "temples" exist in abundance in modern Japan and China, and I'm pretty sure modern Jews frequently refer to their houses of worship as "temple" as well. Islam and Christianity may be the two largest religions in contemporary Egypt and both these religions may refrain from using the word "temple" (although I'm actually not sure about this one; there are lots of placenames in Ireland, whose Hindu, Buddhist and Jewish populations were negligible until fairly recently), but that doesn't make your argument any better. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 07:17, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral, but... Arguments on both sides to this point should depend largely on whether English-language reliable sources prefer one description over the other. All three "oppose" rationales are weaker still from this point of view than the OP, who also would have done better than cite corresponding Wikipedia articles with may just all have been misnamed. Hijiri 88 (聖やや) 07:17, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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I just find it horribly ironic and hypocritical that we call ancient religions "myth" yet if we do that with modern ones we get yelled out of the room. Alex of Canada (talk)
This is different from Ancient Egyptian religion. I never studied Egyptology; but I did study Greek myth, and myth as a series of stories are separate from religious belief; Zeus is a god in Greek religion who is also featured in Greek myth. Aside from that, mythology doesn't carry the same connotations in academics as it does it common speak. Myth doesn't mean "false"- plenty of ancient peoples presumed their mythology to be true. Ribbet32 (talk) 14:30, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Speaking of myths, how did the chaos god Nun come about? Did the Egyptians wondered how water came to exist anyways? Multiple myths state existence used to be water in the beginning, maybe with mud underneath, and the gods came about later. Which is weird, you would think a god would exist first and start everything else, not water.137.118.103.153 (talk) 06:34, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The word myth in mythology has lead some people to believe it means not true. But that’s not exactly the case.
Mythology (from the Greek mythos for story-of-the-people, and logos for word or speech, so the spoken story of a people) is the study and interpretation of often sacred tales or fables of a culture known as myths.