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Document-only claim without any archeological support means that I'm highly skeptical.





That’s the vast majority of antiquity unfortunately.

In Classical history, we've got a number of competing historiographers that we can compare with each other, and a large about of archeological remains. Our estimates of how wealthy any given period of the Roman empire was are based on numismatics, built artifacts, etc. In comparison, this sort of thing is just a wild claim taken at face value (also something not done in Classics).



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