Talk:Tomb of Wah

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A fact from Tomb of Wah appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 March 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the mummy of the ancient Egyptian estate manager Wah was wrapped in 375 m² (448 sq yd) of linen?

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 12:56, 9 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

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... that the mummy of the Middle Kingdom estate manager Wah was wrapped in 375 m² (448 sq yd) of linen?

Source: "In all we unwound 375 square meters of linen from the mummy". Winlock, (1940) The Mummy of Wah Unwrapped p.257

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Created by Merytat3n (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Merytat3n (talk) 11:44, 20 February 2025 (UTC).Reply

A fascinating read... Very well-written. Hook is interesting and cited, length and newness both check out. No need for QPQ. AGF on the offline sources. Best regards, KINGofLETTUCE 👑 🥬 09:54, 22 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Units of measure

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Because this article is about science (Archeology), the Manual of Style states the primary unit should be SI and that human height should be in centimetres. Avi8tor (talk) 06:13, 15 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

Ah, I see, archaeology is considered part of the Humanities where I am (despite the fact we use hard science) ^_^ I've been using whatever units the source I'm citing used to avoid accidentally introducing error. Even though the tomb was discovered and published by Americans, they use imperial for some publications and metric for the other. Thanks though, I can swap to primarily metric (using conversion templates) Merytat3n (talk) 07:38, 15 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

The MOS doesn't list an option for Archeology so I've counted it as a Science, Wikipedia has an article on Archaeology. Reading your article I figured the original was probably from imperial/US sources. The chapter concerning this in the MOS is here: . If it has strong ties to the US it might be US customary units, but this article is a branch of Science and has ties to Egypt. The world has changed substantially in the last 100 years. Interesting article! Avi8tor (talk) 11:20, 15 March 2025 (UTC)Reply