With the help of an expert weaver, archaeologists have unraveled the design secrets behind the world’s oldest pants. The 3,000-year-old wool trousers belonged to a man buried between 1000 and 1200 BCE in Western China. To make them, ancient weavers combined four different techniques to create a garment specially engineered for fighting on horseback, with flexibility in some places and sturdiness in others.The world's oldest pants are a 3,000-year-old engineering marvel | Kiona N. Smith | April 4, 2022
Strong in some places and flexible in others, the pants were designed for horseback riding.
