Talk:List of ancient Egyptian sites

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[edit] Middle Egypt?

What is middle egypt? Egypt was only split into Upper & Lower.

That is correct, however from about Al Fayyum to Asyut (200-300Km) you have an area that is not really part of neither Upper or Lower egypt. The term is in use and some even use it all the way down to Sohag/Abydos. Just tab in "Middle egypt" in google and you will see it is in use. And beside that it makes such a large list more managable. Twthmoses 22:42, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi - I have just wikified the whole list here - just so we know what we are faced with! Is it worth someone writing little descriptions of the areas ? Or even spliting this huge list up even ? i.e. Egypt & Nubia as 2 pages ? Markh 12:27, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List

We really need a chronological List of Ancient Egyptian capitals to sort out this mess.--Countakeshi 13:30, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Why do you say this list is a mess? I find is quite useful. But another list based on chronology, rather than location, could also be useful Twthmoses 18:37, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

No, it is a mess. Several locations are listed twice, and there are inconsistencies in transliterations of Greek and Egyptian names. I second the idea of a list of Ancient Egyptian capitals. Adso de Fimnu 18:58, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

No idea what you are on about ??? List of Ancient Egyptian capitals, what is that?? Capitals of nomes or what?? This list is not a mess, it is quite useful. Please list the problems and we can correct them, useless "locations are listed twice" expression serves nobody. Please list problems. Twthmoses 06:48, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Please calm down. I agree with you that the list is useful, but it makes no distinctions between Ancient Egyptian (that is, before the Greek conquest), Ptolemaic, and Roman sites. Egypt did have several capitals over its long history; such a list would provide a helpful chronology. And the example of repeated location I was thinking of is Nubt-Naqada-Ombos-Kom Ombo. It is listed both in Northern Upper Egypt and Southern Upper Egypt. I am not insulting you; I simply want this helpful resource to be as accurate as possible. Adso de Fimnu 16:54, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Yes Ombos is listed twice, because they are two separate locations! Ombos (Naqada) is a necropolis and settlement, about 30km north of Luxor (the wiki article incorrectly says 80km). Ombos (Kom Ombo) is a city and temple about 150km south of Luxor. I see you put the merge tag on them. I removed it because they are now the same thing.

I cannot immediately see what there is to gain by sorting this list into dynasties or just separating Ptolemaic and Roman sites. Not to talk about how hard it actually would be to do it. One could make a separate list of what sites the Ptolemaic and Romans has build from scratch (few) and those sites they have added to (many). Such a list could be a nice addition, where one could see where the Romans or Ptolemaic has build.

I still don’t understand that this “List of Ancient Egyptian capitals” is, and what it has to do with this list of Ancient Egyptian sites? If it is captials of the different nomes, then it is here Nome (Egypt). If it is a list of eachs phararos main city, e.g his ruling city, then yes that would be a nice list too. Twthmoses 00:19, 2 January 2006 (UTC)