Use of Silk In Ancient Egypt

Silk Road Foundation ^ | Original print at NATURE, March 4, 1993 | G.Lubec, J. Holaubek, C. Feldl, B. Lubec, E. Strouhal

[Monkey Face]

Thanks! Interesting stuff!

I have a sister who spun some silk on a spinning wheel she got from New Zealand. She made it into a skein and gave it to me. I’ll never use it. I just like to look at it and think of all the work (and love) that went into it.

I love silk and have LOTS of washable silk. I haunt the thrift stores to find tops and skirts that are made of silk I can afford, now that I’m retired.

‘Face

;o]

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[Berosus]

Do the authors of this article have any idea where the silk was produced? We already know that the Mediterranean island of Cos made silk in ancient times. However, it wasn’t as good as Chinese silk, so when silk from China became available, the Coan silk industry went out of business.

[SunkenCiv]

Due to their reliance on the conventional pseudochronology, they’ve already dated it wrong, so, possibly not. :^)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coa_vestis

[algore]

Thanks, I never knew that.

I knew all about the hemp, now I wonder about a lot of other organic compounds.

[Red Badger]

In C.B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments, Charlton Heston's character Moses, brings back silk and displays it to the royal court. I always thought that was out of time and place, but I guess he was right!..................

[SunkenCiv]

Nope. Even if this find were correctly dated, the Exodus was mid-15th c BC; even the conventional misdating of the Exodus is two centuries older than the incorrect date of this find. My wild guess is, there was an earlier, then-recent discovery of something that appeared to be Chinese silk, from a Ramses ii context, that has subsequently been found to be not silk or not Chinese. :^)

[SunkenCiv]

The backlash against finding tobacco and cocaine was breathtaking.

[Red Badger]

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[SunkenCiv]

Is such a thing even possible? Yes, it is.