Egyptian Sudan 93 The Age of the Pharaohs We have nothing from the historians of this era that tells us about the agricultural area of Egypt or its revenue. However, Arab historians rectified this deficiency, but the magnitude of the sums and areas they mentioned makes us hesitant to rely on them. This is what they said, estimated in Egyptian pounds: Revenue in Egyptian Pounds Ruler Author 5,600,000 Pharaohs Ibn Khordadbeh 14,760,000 Yusuf bin Ya'qub Abu Saleh 16,800,000 Menkaure Ibn Wasif Shah 4,320,000 Pharaoh Moses " " " 5,820,000 Al-Rayyan bin Al-Walid Al-Maqrizi 6,000,000 " " " " 60,018,000 Kaykavus Abu Al-Mahasin .. .. Al-Masudi and Ibn Iyas 18,000,000 Cultivated Land in Feddans However, I saw, based on evidence I explained in my notes, that the population of Egypt during the time of the Pharaohs was 18 million, or more likely 20 million, and that the cultivated area was 6 million feddans. Then, some historians mentioned the percentage by which the revenue was levied, even if they did not mention the revenue itself. If we consider this percentage along with the yield of the country in that era, the revenue would have been as follows, according to these authors: Percentage of Cultivated Area Revenue in Egyptian Pounds per Feddan in Qirsh Author 35 2,100,000 6,000,000 Spiro and Niprozo 10 percent 70 4,200,000 6,000,000 20 Hartman