It doesn’t look like much, but this tattered piece of clothing found buried in an ancient Egyptian cemetery has been confirmed as the world’s oldest dress as well as the oldest woven garment known to archaeologists.
虽然看上去其貌不扬,然而这件发现于古代埃及墓穴中的褴褛衣裳已经被考古学家确认为世界上最古老的裙装,也是最古老的纺织工艺成衣。
Called the Tarkhan dress, the remarkable garment has now officially been dated by University College London researchers to between 5,100 and 5,500 years old. That places it way back to the First Dynasty of ancient Egypt, and possibly even earlier.
这条裙子被称作达拉罕裙。据伦敦大学学院的研究者测定并公布,这件令人惊叹的裙衫制造于公元前5100年到5500年之间,即古代埃及的第一王朝,可能甚至更早。
The Tarkhan dress was originally discovered in 1912 in an ancient Egyptian cemetery just south of Cairo. Archaeologists didn’t think much of it at the time, letting it languish in a “great pile of linen cloth.” Then, upon its rediscovery in 1977, it was sent to the Victoria and Albert Museum for conservation. Scientists knew it was old, but its exact date has been a matter of controversy. But new radiocarbon analysis, performed by UCL’s Alice Stevenson and Michael W. Dee, finally confirm the item’s antiquity.
达拉罕裙最初是在1912年开罗南部的一座古代埃及墓地中发现的。考古学家们当时并没有在意它,直接把它扔进了“一大堆亚麻布”之中。然后在1977年,它又重见天日了,于是被送到维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆以作保存。科学家们知道它历史悠久,但是具体悠久到什么年代一直是个存在争议的问题。伦敦大学学院的Alice Stevenson和Michael W. Dee通过放射性碳素分析,最终确定了这件物品的年代。
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