The Tarkhan Dress stands as one of the most remarkable textile discoveries and is currently considered the oldest woven ...

In an exhibition on ancient Egyptian-inspired fashion at the Cleveland Museum of Art, a relief depicts the wife of Amenhotep wearing a kalasiris, or long linen dress, juxtaposed with a white ...

One incredibly well-preserved 5,600-year-old mummy is now upending much of what we thought we knew about Ancient Egyptian embalming ... explored fragments of clothing from mummy funeral wrappings ...

The river was helpful for growing food in a hot place, as well as crops that made clothes and paper ... anyone in Britain. Ancient Egyptian: What have you got in this linen sack thing anyway?

The methods of embalming, or treating the dead body, that the ancient Egyptians used is called mummification ... sunken areas of the body were filled out with linen and other materials and false eyes ...

ancient Egyptian god of embalming and the dead. It is made of cartonnage, layers of linen and papyrus, stiffened with plaster and then painted. It is one of only three surviving masks made for the ...

Image (from CT scan) by Salima Ikram and others, South African Mummy Project Team Peering inside the linen wrappings of an ancient Egyptian bird mummy, a CT scan has revealed a true rara avis—a ...