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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.

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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.

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A fact from Bab el-Gasus appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 April 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the largest intact Ancient Egyptian tomb ever found, with 254 richly decorated sarcophagi, was forgotten for almost a century?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bab el-Gasus.

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 23:35, 20 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

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The 1891 discovery on the cover of L'Illustration

... that the largest intact Ancient Egyptian tomb ever found, with 254 richly decorated sarcophagi, was forgotten for almost a century? Source: REDISCOVERING THE TOMB OF THE PRIESTS OF AMUN, 2021: “The Tomb of the Priests of Amun, also known as Bab el-Gasus, is the largest undisturbed tomb ever found in Egypt... In the year 1891, within its galleries, Eugéne Grébaut and Georges Daressy unearthed a vast hoard of funerary equipment consisting of 254 coffins... However, with the onset of World War I, such research was discontinued, and from this point on, the find was largely forgotten. The collections sent out of Egypt witnessed the turbulent political and historical circumstances that would deeply affect the world. Indeed, the rapid succession of Two World Wars has greatly contributed to global ignorance of these collections, by the public and scholars alike, especially as most objects languished in storerooms in Europe, and couldn’t be put on any kind of display… During the 1980’s Andrzej Niwiński was the first author to carry out a holistic approach to the inscribed sources of the 21st Dynasty. Not only was he the author of a study on funerary papyri of the 21st Dynasty, but he also compiled and recorded all the available information on the coffin sets found in the tomb, providing for the first updated list of coffins and their current locations in Egypt and beyond.”
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Created by Onceinawhile (talk). Self-nominated at 01:19, 17 April 2022 (UTC).Reply

Interesting article and hook (and great addition to your portfolio ;)), the prose is long enough; article, including the lists, is cited to RS. I did not detect copyvio as far as the online sources, AGF on the offline. Meets all other criteria. Al Ameer (talk) 02:05, 19 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

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