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The Tarkhan Dress, named for the Tarkhan cemetery south of Cairo in Egypt where it was excavated in 1913, is an over 5000 year old linen garment that was confirmed as the world's oldest piece of woven clothing. [2] [1] The dress coded UC28614B is currently in the collection of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. [3]
Revenge dress, a black dress worn by Diana, Princess of Wales following the revelation that her husband had been unfaithful; Tarkhan dress, a 5000-year old linen dress considered the known oldest woven garment; Travolta dress, a midnight blue gown worn by Diana and named for John Travolta, with whom she danced while wearing it
The earliest form of pleated linen dates from ancient Egypt and can be seen in a garment known as the Tarkhan dress, which is over 5000 years old and is believed to be one of the oldest dresses in existence. [1] Other examples of pleated linen from ancient history include pleated linen from the tomb of queen Neferu. [2]
Tarkhan is an ancient Egyptian necropolis, located around 50 km south of Cairo on the west bank of the Nile. The cemetery was excavated in two seasons by Flinders Petrie . Tombs of almost all periods were found, but most importantly many belonging to the time of Egyptian state formation, the Early Dynastic period around 3100 BC.
During her time at the museum, a garment in the museum collection was radiocarbon dated to between 3482 and 3102 BC, and heralded as the world's oldest dress. [6] [7] Stevenson is a contributor to The Conversation news outlet and has written an article about the sale of archaeological antiquities on the open market. [8]
Folkwear or traditional dress and later commercial fashion worn in Europe from ancient times to the c. World War II Category:History of fashion covers clothing worn from antiquity to the modern day.
Tarkhan was used among the Sogdian, [4] Saka, Hephthalite, Turkic, and proto-Mongol peoples of Central Asia and by other Eurasian nomads. It was a high rank in the army of Timur . Tarkhans commanded military contingents (roughly of regimental size under the Turkic Khazars ) and were, roughly speaking, generals .
Ka is one of the best attested predynastic kings with Narmer and Scorpion II. Beyond Abydos, he is attested in the predynastic necropolis of Adaima in Upper Egypt [10] and in the north in Tarkhan, Helwan, Tell Ibrahim Awad, Tell el-Farkha (Eastern Nile Delta), Wadi Tumilat and as far north as Tel Lod in the Southern Levant. [11]