Egypt
04/23/2021
The incredible story behind the world’s oldest dress from Egypt that’s more than 5,000 yrs old
The world’s oldest woven garment found in Egypt. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY PETRIE MUSEUM OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Garments worn thousands of years ago have survived to the present day. Those garments were merely wrapped around the body. But the “Tarkhan Dress,” named for the town in Egypt where it was found in 1913, is beautifully stitched. About five years ago, it was precisely dated using the latest radiocarbon dating technology. Researchers determined that the linen dress with fine detail dates to between 3482 and 3103 B.C., making it the world’s oldest woven garment.
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George Hart obituary Sam Moorhead
My friend George Hart, who has died aged 75 of cancer, was one of Britain’s leading educators about Egypt. If you walked through the Egyptian sculpture gallery at the British Museum and saw a large crowd of people being addressed by someone you could barely see, it had to be George conducting a gallery talk. There was rarely an empty seat when he lectured.
George was born in Dunfermline, the son of Horace Hart, known as Harry, an underwriter’s clerk, and his wife, Lillian (nee Smith), a secretary. The family moved south when George was a child and he attended East Ham grammar school. He studied Classics and Egyptology at University College London, where he was greatly inspired by Professor Harry Smith, the Egyptologist, who became a mentor.
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