Tarkhan dress

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The Tarkhan dress is a linen garment that is over 5,000 years old and the oldest surviving piece of woven clothing. It is named after Tarkhan, a necropolis south of Cairo, where it was excavated in 1913. The dress, coded UC28614B, is currently in the collection of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London. Radiocarbon dating in 1978 estimated the item to have been created around 2362 BC, though a further test in 2015 by the University of Oxford affirms, with 95% accuracy, that the dress dates from between 3482 and 3102 BC.

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