Talk:Fourth Dynasty of Egypt

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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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Needs work[edit]

Consider: "the first pharaoh of the fourth dynasty and single-handedly marked the climax of the Old Kingdom. He descended from a family in the Middle Kingdom, that lived near the city Hermopolis and most likely, he ascended to the throne by marrying a royal heiress." It is not possible for a fourth dynasty Pharoah to be descended from a Middle Kingdom family.--131.118.144.250 (talk) 20:22, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi!

Khufu's reign seems a bit short on the green timeline :) I think the source of the slavery myth comes from Herodot, too, who mentions this in his book. It is sad that there has to be so much defence of a popular myth- I wonder by whom the Empire State Building was erected? Nice article! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.171.71.40 (talk) 16:00, 4 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Corrected ridiculously inaccurate dates[edit]

Dates were given in the 2400s and 2300s for most of these pharaohs. These are obviously ludicrous; if you just check the pages for each pharaoh, you'll see that they were all quite incorrect. I've made the corrections, to the best of my ability. Lionboy-Renae (talk) 02:58, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Doesn't matter all that much, since truth is, it's impossible to pinpoint anything like exact dates that long ago, and differing estimates by prominent Egyptologists have varied wildly, even by centuries. 2400 BC could well be no more or less 'ludicrous' than 2600 BC! Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 19:37, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The dates aren't ludicrous at all. A number of pharaohs made recorded observations of the heliacal rise of Sothis; these can be astronomically pinpointed, and have thus resulted in the emergence of "high" and "low" chronologies for the pharaohs' reigns (based on where the heliacal rises were observed from). Lionboy-Renae (talk) 03:59, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Per WP:ERA, this edit established the usage of this page as BC/AD. It should kindly be maintained pending a new consensus. Thanks! — $Llywelyn II$ 13:41, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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