Some of his best discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology at University College London are currently touring the United States. "Excavating Egypt" is at the Albany Institute of History & Art through June 4... the bead-net dress that is one of two such garments that have survived from the Old Kingdom period, about 2400 B.C. Worn over another garment, it would have rattled with movement. One of Petrie's students found a box containing thousands of beads and shells in the previously robbed tomb of a girl, and they were restrung based on pictures from the period... He saw...