The Tarkhan dress is a 5000 Year Old Ancient Egyptian Dress. It was excavated at Tarkhan, one of the most important cemeteries from the time Egypt was unified around 3000 BC. In 1913, Sir Flinders Petrie’s team excavated a pile of linen from an Egyptian tomb, but it was only in 1977, when this linen pile was cleaned by the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Textile Conservation Workshop, that the dress was discovered. It was then carefully stitched into Crepeline la fine silk material used in textile