Egyptian population during the third-century crisis

What experts have said about Egyptian population during the third-century crisis

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1. Anthony KaldellisNeutralJun 30, 2026· Lex Fridman Podcast

   Ordinary Egyptians largely did not appear to experience the third-century crisis as an everyday catastrophe.

   “if you go to Egypt, for example, which is kind of out of the right. What's going on there? How are people living there? And we can see how people are living in Egypt because we have all these papyrus documents from Egypt and for the most part they don't seem to be experiencing a crisis”

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