Bill Gates is the wealthiest man alive today, but he doesn’t even crack the top 10 of wealthiest people in world history.
At least not according to CelebrityNetWorth.com, which took a stab at the gargantuan (and honestly impossible) task in 2012 of putting together a list of the richest people ever to walk the planet. They calculated the wealth of each figure in 2012 dollars. Check out who made the cut.
