From repression to revolution: Egypt’s Tax Collectors موظفو الضرائب: أداة قهر عند الفراعنة وبشارة الثورة في عهد مبارك

The pic below is taken by archeologist and friend Nora Shalaby, in Sakkara’s Tomb of Mereruka. The latter was the Prime Minister and the son-in-law of Pharaoh Teti, from the 6th Dynasty. The full mural shows Egyptian tax collectors torturing tax evaders, dragging the village elders to give evidence on their faulty tax returns, to be paid in produce. One man has been stripped, and his arms and feet are bound round a post where he is being beaten

This was 5,000 years ago… Today, under King Mubarak I, the Egyptian property tax collectors are the ones leading the fight against the state…

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