English

Wealth distribution in an ancient Egyptian society

Other Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v1 General Finance

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.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0410414,
  title  = {Wealth distribution in an ancient Egyptian society},
  author = {A. Y. Abul-Magd},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0410414},
  year   = {2009}
}