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To: PlateOfShrimp

How many other fabric items of the same construction still exist from 2000 years ago still exist?


9 posted on 04/28/2019 8:55:06 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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The Tarkhan Dress, the Oldest Woven Garment in the World

The item is known as the Tarkhan dress. It was discovered in 1912 by one of the most famous Egyptologists in history – William Flinders Petrie. Petrie excavated the site of Tarkhan, located 50 km (31.07 miles) south of Cairo, in 1912 – 1913. The impressive textile was found in one of the tombs, which was a large mud-brick niched construction. The tomb was built during the First Dynasty (c. 3218–3035 BC).


17 posted on 04/28/2019 9:23:27 AM PDT by caww
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This shroud Discovered from inside an ancient Egyptian tomb ..dated 2,000 years ago. The shroud, which was made of linen and miraculously intact, had been hand-painted with an artistic depiction of the Egyptian god of the afterlife and underworld, Osiris.


20 posted on 04/28/2019 9:37:46 AM PDT by caww
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How many other fabric items of the same construction still exist from 2000 years ago still exist?

There are many cloth artifacts that are even older, but not that are that large or that were preserved as their original sizes or separate from another archaeological find, such as the wrappings of Egyptian mummies. Many of those were far older. Few are in as good a condition.

45 posted on 04/28/2019 2:02:48 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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