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. "Alexander the Great: 2000 years of treasures" opens next week in Sydney
  2. New gallery reveals skill of Neolithic Chinese potters at The Oriental Museum in Durham
  3. Arts and crafts in Greek antiquity: Selected finds from a royal necropolis in Northern Greece in Brussels
  4. Meet the ancestors: Exhibition at Bordeaux gallery reveals faces of prehistoric humans
  5. Wonders of Constantinople's underground water world to go on display in Istanbul