The oldest costume in the world was made for a pharaonic funeral

The oldest piece of clothing in the world is a simple V -neck piece that was ignored for decades as rags. It was made for a funeral of ancient Egypt.

O Tarkhan suit It is a piece of linen clothing in linen was made for a Egyptian funeral for 5,000 years.

It is the oldest known example of a cut, adjusted and made by tailor.

According to archaeologists, the origin of the dress is the necropolis of Tarkhan, governor of Giza, Egypt, and was made between 3500 and 3100 BC. This is why it is said to be the complex woven garment piece more old.

As it writes, Tarkhan’s costume has more history than it seems.

There are more than five millennia, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, made linen dress in linen – probably without imagining how long it would last.

The dress was Found by Flinders Petie in 1913during the excavation of a mastaba – a large, rectangular and flat -top Egyptian tomb – near the city of Tarkhan, about 60 kilometers south of Cairo.

Petie discovered more than 2,000 tombs in the Tarkhan necropolis, many of whom date from the end of the protodynamic period and the beginning of the dynastic period (c. 3100 BC), when the pharaohs began to rule a unified Egypt.

Inside the mastaba, Petie found what he called a “large pile of linen fabric”. Although Petrie took the fabric to the UK, Tarkhan’s dress remained in a pile until 1977, when conservatives of Victoria and Albert MuseumIn London, they realized what it was.

Common modest neckline in vthe dress was made from three pieces of hand -made linen from hand from hand from common linen (Flax usitatissimum), according to the Petie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology at University College London (UCL), where Tarkhan’s dress is currently exposed.

The sleeves and the bodice have a knife -type fold decoration made through narrow and fabric creases.

The bottom of the piece is missing, so it is not known if it was a shirt, a tunic or a dress.

“The survival of highly perishable textiles in the archaeological record is exceptional,” wrote Alice Stevenson, currently professor of museum archeology at UCL, in a 2016 study, and “the survival of complete or almost complete clothing pieces, even more.”

In a study in 2016, Alice Stevensonteacher of museum archeology at UCL and Michael DeeIsotope chemist at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands, confirmed the antiquity of Tarkhan’s costume, revealing that it was done “On the threshold of the first dynasty”.