Talk:Culture of Egypt

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[edit] Science

www.dictionary.com defines culture as "The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought." Science is arguably the ultimate attempt by humans to create an institution around transmitting human work and thought between people and throughout the ages. Therefore, I think the article would not be complete without a section on Science. I will begin the section with a mention of Ptolemy. Johntex 01:22, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Go for it. I think it would be fair to include a new section for science if there's enough material. If there isn't, it could easily become a paragraph under literature. I wonder if anyone can contribute anything on mediaeval Egyptian culture, perhaps more science! Gareth Hughes 01:33, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Well, I think there is plenty of material! I took info on Ptolemy Library of Alexandria and Ahmed H. Zewail from their articles here on Wikipedia. They may need to be shortened some more, especially if other scientists come to light. I also began the section on Art. Johntex 03:12, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Medival egyptian culture is generally part of the Islamic culiture and later the Ottomanic one. also an important addition would be the revival of arabic literature in the 19th and 20th century (e.g NAguib Mahfouz , Taha Husien ,etc.) and egyptian cinema (Youcef Chahine ,etc.).

that comment was by me --Thesamo 04:31, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Additional Suggestions

I have not been working on this article, but I have a few suggestions. From the looks of it (a good comparison is Culture of the United Kingdom, very good article) this article is still lacking sections on architecture, theatre (I know the Greeks were famous for drama, any Egyptian plays?), food, education, sport, and dress. I don't know how well all of these would apply, bu they are good goals. I am also confused about the first sentence, because China claims to be the oldest civilization... maybe I'm just not seeing the distinction. --Dmcdevit 23:22, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Egypt is not the "world's longest-enduring national culture" because the original culture was wiped out by Hellenic-Roman and later Arab conquest--this is why China is usually referred to as the world's oldest continuous civilization. Sumerian writing is also by most accounts older than ancient Egyptian. I removed the two claims which I believe to be incorrect. --Jiang 06:12, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I agree Culture of the United Kingdom can be a useful guide. I checked the Featured Article List and I see that no "Culture of..." article has yet made it to Featured Article status. However, there are other articles there on History, Literature, etc. that could be helpful to improving this article. Let's make this the first "Culture of..." article to reach Featured status! Johntex 19:28, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I can't believe there is nothing about the pyramids, sphinx, tombs, etc! There could certainly be much more about their Architecture in this article.--24.251.234.191 22:50, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)