Talk:Menkaure

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That guy really lived for 140 years? AxelBoldt 16:37, 1 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I think that's supposed to mean that they can't place his rule any more specific than that. --84.216.41.127 13:05, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

According to authoritative sources, the name of Ra was indeed pronounced "Re", and this king's name is "Menkaure". So why was the name changed here?

There is no difference. You're dealing with transliteration here. There will always be minor discrepencies when you convert something like ancient Egyptian into a modern Romance language. Someone made an article called "Mankaure" for the Pyramid of Menkaure which I later started. The truth is, the pyramid doesn't have a separate name, and if it did, it wouldn't differ so minutely as to an "a" and an "e" for the reasons of transliteration I mentioned above. --Palpatine 05:27, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

First, R' was probably pronounced Rea, according to the amarna letters. Second, the name of menkaure's pyramid is "Menkaure is Divine." In my experience, menkaure is the more common rendering, but my experience has been shown to be rather wrong of late. Ian Shaw uses "ra", grimal goes back to the greek mycernius, gardner is "re", as does Redford... Menkaure is over four times more common on Google, as well. Thanatosimii 00:44, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Amarna letters were written about 1200 years after Menkaure's reign. A language can change pretty much in 1200 years. Anyway, I just wanted to point out that right now the articles Menkaura and Pyramid of Menkaure use two different spellings, and it would be much nicer to pick one, rather than using different spellings in article titles. – Alensha ^talk 15:00, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just a thought on this article: It says the Mankaure Pyramid was the tomb of Menkaure, but the bones founds there were probably placed some 20 centuries later, as the article says... why scholars insist on telling this pyramid, or any other one, is a tomb? Hchiari 00:49, 11 Feb 2016 (UTC)