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Wealth distribution in an ancient Egyptian society

A. Y. Abul-Magd

cond-mat.otherarXiv:cond-mat/0410414

Abstract

Modern excavations yielded a distribution of the house areas in the ancient Egyptian city Akhetaten, which was populated for a short period during the 14th century BC. Assuming that the house area is a measure of the wealth of its inhabitants allows us to make a comparison of the wealth distributions in ancient and modern societies.

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