5000 Year Old Tarkhan Dress: World’s Oldest Woven Garment

5000 Year Old Tarkhan Dress: World’s Oldest Woven Garment http://bit.ly/1SLRDW5

The Tarkhan Dress, a V-neck linen shirt currently on display in the University College London (UCL) Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, has been confirmed as the world’s oldest woven garment with radiocarbon testing dating the garment to the late fourth-millennium BC.


Radiocarbon testing conducted in 2015 by the University of Oxford’s radiocarbon unit, and published this week on Antiquity’s Project Gallery, has established that the dress was made between 3482-3102 BC with 95% accuracy.

 Although the dress was thought to be Egypt’s oldest garment, and the oldest surviving woven garment in the world, the precise age of the dress was uncertain as previous carbon dating proved too broad to be historically meaningful. The new results both confirm the dress’s antiquity and also suggest that it may be older than previously thought, pre-dating the First Dynasty.

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