This dress found in Egypt is over 5,000 years old
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Figure 1. The
Tarkhan Dress, courtesy of the Petrie Museum, UCL (UC28614B1).
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Archeaologists used radiocarbon analysis to determine that
this linen dress, known as “The Tarkhan Dress” from the Petrie Museum of
Egyptian Archaeology, would have been worn sometime between 5,400 and 5,100
years ago, making it the oldest known example of cut, fit and tailored apparel.
It
is rare for fabric to survive for hundreds of years and even rarer for such a
complete item of clothing to remain intact—after thousands of years!
From “Confirmation of the
world’s oldest woven garment: the Tarkhan Dress” by Alice Stevenson
& Michael W. Dee. http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/stevenson349
Learn more about radio carbon dating at http://earthsky.org/earth/what-is-radiocarbon-dating
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