Talk:Alchemy in history
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[edit] Name
This needs a better name. Cultural influences in alchemy, perhaps?-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 00:52, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
- I think it could use a better name too, but I don't the article is more than cultural influences. Maybe just History of Alchemy? Which is, I just found, redirected to Alchemy instead of this article. --T. Baphomet 18:39, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
- I thought about that one but does it really talk about that? It seems like it's discussing 'history by region'...-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 21:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
- If we keep it in line with the other histories of early sciences it would be, as Baphomet suggested, History of Alchemy (or History of Alchemy and Early Chemistry). There still needs to be some historiographical material moved / copied from the main article to give this some structure. --SteveMcCluskey 22:32, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
- I thought about that one but does it really talk about that? It seems like it's discussing 'history by region'...-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 21:33, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Suspicious contirbution
Removed from the article:
- One of the most famous Egyptian Alchemists was Marik Alu-Kurard or shortened to Marik Alucard (in English). He was known mostly for making stones and first proposed an idea for the philosophers stone. Not else is known just fragments of script found in King Tut's tomb showing that King Tut had a liking to the skills possessed by Marik Alucard.
"Marik Alu-Kurard" doesn't look like a genuine ancient Egyptian name. Possibly Arabic -- but Arabic wasn't spoken in King Tut's time. And if Marik Alu-Kurard's had been found in Tut's tomb, it would have been mentioned in one of the standard histories on Egypt. I smell a hoax. -- llywrch 01:50, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
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The whole Ancient Egyptian section needs to be strickedn--it takes the hermetica as pre-Greek compositions! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.0.49.132 (talk) 00:15, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
