Oldest woven clothing
- Who
- Tarkhan dress
- What
- 5,000 year(s)
- Where
- Egypt (Cairo)
- When
- 2016
The oldest known woven garment is a 5,000-year-old linen shirt found in the Tarkhan cemetery in Egypt, south of Cairo. The Tarkhan dress, as it is known, was excavated in 1913, but its true age – dating to earlier than 3000 BC – was not known until 2016.