Talk:Thebes, Egypt

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I didn't see a link to Pharoah on either the Memphis page or this Thebes page. Would it be sensible for one or both of them to so link ?

[edit] Afrocentric bias not needed

The complete body of the text on Thebes has been replaced for the second time with an article that is rife with Afrocentric bias. Moreover, it is, quite frankly, poorly written, and it is not properly formatted for use with Wiki. To the anonymous individual at 24.209.250.134 who is posts this material, please read Wikipedia:Neutral point of view article and the relevent pages on formatting.

I am therefore changing the article back to what it was before the Afrocentric version was inserted. I would, however, like to invite 24.209.250.134 to contribute all s/he wants, but ask that a NPOV be maintained. We can then avoid an edit war. --Nefertum17 08:55, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Theba of Egypt and Theba of Boeotia

Why Greeks named the city "Niwt-rst" or "Waset", capital of Southern Kingdom, as "Thebae", which is the name of Boeotian city?

What was the relation between two Thebas?

--IonnKorr 20:40, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

'The name Thebes is often mistakenly thought to derive from the name of the Greek town called'

Um -- if it's 'mistakenly', well then a number of hugely respected Egyptologists (both alive and dead) are mistaken. Barry Kemp explicitly discusses the Greek Thebes/Egypt Thebes relationship.--Pwaryuex 04:44, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

It was a "mistake" by the ancient Greeks, I suppose is meant here. But wasn´t it Herodotus who wrote about Thebes with one hundred gates, I hardly recall this from the Illiad by Homer? --JFK 12:30, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Population figures

It is difficult and sometimes even impossible to rank the world´s top five largest cities in ancient times. The Chandler list [1] is based on some very general assumptions. --JFK 12:37, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

I changed the 1980 to 1780, which I believe to be a typo.

It is believed that Thebes was the largest city in the world from 1780 BC to 1770 BC and from 1400 to 668 BC.^[1]

Removed until verified. --JFK 11:41, 12 May 2006 (UTC)