The Great London [04/19/22] 

  • Greater Middle East: Tarkhan Dress is the world’s oldest woven garment

    The Tarkhan Dress, a V-neck linen shirt currently on display in the 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.The Tarkhan Dress [Credit: UCL]Radiocarbon testing conducted in 2015 by the University of…

  1. Walk the ruins of Machu Picchu on Google Street View
  2. Xinjiang Khotanese Buddhist wall paintings displayed in Shanghai
  3. Making heads or tails of Ancient Greece
  4. Johns Hopkins opens new museum housing archaeological collection
  5. American history museum sells more than 2,000 items, reviving ethics debate