Guy de la Bédoyère
Guy de la Bédoyère is a historian and author of books including Domina: The Women Who Made Imperial Rome, Roman Britain: A New History, and Pharaohs of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty.
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Wealth concentration among elites was common in ancient nations, but the scale on which it took place in Egypt’s 18th Dynasty was unprecedented.