Talk:Egypt#rfc 4DA0E12

The article only mentions the supposed origin for copt ([https://www.academia.edu/36246174/Memphis_Minos_and_Mycenae_Bronze_Age_contact_between_Egypt_and_the_Aegean it seems to have been originally for a cat)], however the [https://www.jstor.org/stable/40024547 older attestation] for Misr in that text from the same region is ignored a [https://www.academia.edu/963845/The_Geography_of_the_Mycenaean_Kingdoms Linear B tablet also has Misr in it]. d mi-sa-ra-jo (Misraios, also

etymologically ‘man of Egypt’ [MiÒr] ([https://www.academia.edu/27025739/TRF_4_Citadels_and_Palaces KN F 841.4]) (cf. SHELMERDINE 2008, §5.4.2.2, BENNET, J. 1985, The Structure of the Linear B Administration at Knossos, AJA 89, 231-49), not to mention it is [https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:674114/EXTRACTED_TEXT/ likely older] "(misr), more commonly found in Akkadian and Ugaritic documents from Syro-Palestine and Mesopotamia (Cline 1993: 18). Mis-sa-ra-jo appears on Knossos tablet KN F 841+867, possibly used as a man’s name, which Cline believes was meant to be

pronounced as Misraios (Cline 1994: 128).

And undounbtedly older still its attestation as Misr [http://www.talanta.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2016_Documents_in_Minoan_Luwian_Semitic_and_Pelasgian.pdf in Linear A] (CH # 333, A1) (Best & Woudhuizen 1988: 50-51; most recently and comprehensively Achterberge.a. 2004: 104; Landau 1958: 270. Cf. Luwian hieroglyphic Mizra “Egypt” (Karkamis A6, § 4), see Woudhuizen 2015a: 280 and the composite personal name Mizramuwas) in the [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3853586 oldest dated Minoan Tablet].

Further references for Misr in Linear texts

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3853586

https://books.google.com/books?id=7KemAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT133&lpg=PT133&dq=misraios+linear&source=bl&ots=Zxoo0-1hY7&sig=ACfU3U2maplXzvLYndDdT400MVDR6Cx4fQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjczsnlmOzxAhUUOs0KHbFVBHoQ6AEwEHoECBQQAw#v=onepage&q=misraios%20&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=VOsUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=%22mi-sa-ra-jo%22&source=bl&ots=GqJzZXqicW&sig=ACfU3U2ehtSiZWXcs0q-eRcrhcZQTE_wmw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjlj8e8mOzxAhX8B50JHetUApQQ6AEwBHoECAoQAw#v=onepage&q=%22mi-sa-ra-jo%22&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=EHu-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT1213&lpg=PT1213&dq=linear+A+museum+tablet+misraios&source=bl&ots=SK7P7ajcNZ&sig=ACfU3U1uKklU43-uagxpqBBp8JqSKIwuXA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjngKDKpuzxAhXLZc0KHbcVArYQ6AEwB3oECBYQAw#v=onepage&q=linear%20A%20museum%20tablet%20misraios&f=false

http://www.palaeolexicon.com/Word/Show/26969

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4433744?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

https://www.academia.edu/1547735/Politics_of_the_sea_in_the_Late_Bronze_Age_II_III_Aegean_Iconographic_preferences_and_textual_perspectives

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/memories-into-images-aegean-and-aegeanlike-objects-in-new-kingdom-egyptian-theban-tombs/73A212AC959151082FCCF4022403D540

In describing the countries that Egypt borders, the hyperlink for Israel, and only Israel was removed. This is obviously anti-Israel bias and is inappropriate. They hyperlink should be restored. 75.168.207.230 (talk) 06:21, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

:Libya and Sudan were also not linked, so put your outrage aside. Largoplazo (talk) 11:59, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

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"In the elections of June 2014 El-Sisi won with a percentage of 96.1%"

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"In the elections of June 2014 El-Sisi won with a percentage of 96.1%" Inktaap (talk) 18:45, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

:{{done}} He hadn't been mentioned since the lead, it needed his full name there too. Largoplazo (talk) 19:12, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

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There are also more than three million Egyptians working abroad, mainly in Libya, Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Europe.

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There are also more than three million Egyptians working abroad, mainly in Libya, Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Europe. Inktaap (talk) 19:23, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

:{{not done}}: maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I can't see the difference between the two. M.Bitton (talk) 18:15, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Because i dont work on this page I am not sure why this reference is used in reference to the color of the desert: Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn Mukhtār (1990). Ancient Civilizations of Africa. Currey. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-85255-092-2. Archived from the original on 31 January 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2016.

There is nothing on that page that speaks about km.t, which means black land, likely referring to the fertile black soils of the Nile flood plains, distinct from the deshret (⟨dšṛt⟩), or "red land" of the desertHausa warrior (talk) 00:01, 12 March 2025 (UTC)