Look at the population numbers..This is a very good read. Ancient Egyptian Cemetery Holds Proof of Hard Labor Heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten's capital was no paradise for many adults and children. Traci Watson for National Geographic News Published March 13, 2013 Carvings on the walls of the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna depict a world of plenty. Oxen are fattened in a cattle yard. Storehouses bulge with grain and fish. Musicians serenade the pharaoh as he feasts on meat at a banquet. But new research hints that life in Amarna was a combination of grinding toil and want—at least for the ordinary people who would have hauled the city's water, unloaded the boats on the Nile, and built Amarna's grand stone temples, which were erected in a rush on the orders of a ruler named Akhenaten, sometimes called the "Heretic Pharaoh." Researchers examining skeletons in the commoners' cemetery in Amarna have discovered that many of the city's children were malnourished and stunted. Adults show signs of backbreaking work, including high levels of injuries associated with accidents. "We have evidence of the most stressed and disease-ridden of the ancient skeletons of Egypt that have been reported to date," said University of Arkansas bioarchaeologist Jerome Rose (a National Geographic Committe for Research and Exploration grantee), one of the team of experts examining the dead. "Amarna is the capital city of the Egyptian empire. There should be plenty of food . . . Something seems to be amiss." Amarna was the capital city conjured out of the desert sands in roughly 1350 B.C. by Akhenaten, husband to the famous Queen Nefertiti and likely father of King Tut. Akhenaten rejected the crowded cast of Egyptian gods in favor of the worship of just one, the Aten, or sun god. At Akhenaten's command, the city of Amarna was built some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of modern Cairo as a place where Aten could reign supreme. Continued. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...en-amarna-cemetery-archaeology-science-world/
Up until the advent of modern medicine, modern agriculture and industrialization/mechanization, what your article is describing was a common occurence the world all over, not just egypt. Even in the USA and Canada, manutrition, injuries and infirmities were the norm in rural communities up until the 1900.
Neferuaten was deformed herself and i doubt she ever worked in her life , it can also be genetic disease , an epidemic or something else responsible for the poor condition of the people there.
"""Up until the advent of modern medicine, modern agriculture and industrialization/mechanization, what your article is describing was a common occurence the world all over,"""" The bolded above....why do you think all that stopped the oppression of the poor, or made their lives any better? It didn't...people still worked like slaves for the wealthy, were at their mercy, and still do and still are. - - - Updated - - - """There should be plenty of food """.....for those who could afford it..
I was adressing the physical aspect of this thread subject, not the social impact of it. Beside, Your whole premise seem to be that whole socialism/communism is better than capitalism for the workers, which has been proven wrong in each and every society that tried it. There were famine and oppression in every "equalitarian" attempt at society through out history. While capilasim in it's extreme form is as bad, in the fashion that most modern society practice it which is a mix of capitalism and social programs, it is the one system that, at least, gives the poor a fighting chance. This is especially true for society were education is free or cheap enough to be accessible to the poor, which again is only present in those same capitalist society that people like to bash on. In country with despotic regime, like China for exemple, education is mostly available for those who live in the cities. The rural population receive almost nothing, live way below the poverty index, have pitiful health services and yet people on the left uses china as a model system. Same goes for the old USSR and Cuba or Vietnam. India is a close second behind China because at least they do try once in a while to help their rural population but still suffer from their outdated caste system.
