The Really Rich Top Ten

The 10 richest men of all time

• Mansa Musa (1280-1337, king of the Mali empire) wealth incomprehensible. During the reign of Mansa Musa, the empire of Mali accounted for almost half of the Old World's gold, according to the British Museum.
• Augustus Caesar (63 BC-14 AD, Roman emperor) $4.6tn (£3.5tn)
• Zhao Xu (1048-1085, emperor Shenzong of Song in China) wealth incalculable
• Akbar I (1542-1605, emperor of India's Mughal dynasty) wealth incalculable
• Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919, Scottish-American industrialist) $372bn
• John D Rockefeller (1839-1937) American business magnate) $341bn
• Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov (1868-1918, Tsar of Russia) $300bn
• Mir Osman Ali Khan ( 1886-1967, Indian royal) $230bn
• William The Conqueror (1028-1087) $229.5bn
• Muammar Gaddafi (1942-2011, long-time ruler of Libya) $200bn

Source: Money.com, Celebrity Net Worth

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, according to the 2019 Forbes billionaires' list released this week. With an estimated fortune of $131bn (£99bn) he is the wealthiest man in modern history. But he is by no means the richest man of all time.

That title belongs to Mansa Musa, the 14th Century West African ruler

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