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Good stuff. Thanks.
Since we are talking about silk here. Can anyone explain why, if you have a silk shirt and you get it wet .It ruins it.
In “The Ten Commandments” scene where Moses first tells Rameses to let the Israelites go, right before Moses enters, the Hittites gift Rameses with a roll of shimmering cloth, supposedly woven by the gods, from the Five Rivers region in the Punjab, where the Hittite ambassador says, “they call it silk.”
In the documentary I saw Moses brought some to Sethi in the palace as tribute.
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.