The Tarkhan Dress, named for the Tarkhan cemetery south of Cairo in Egypt where it was excavated in 1913, is an over 5000 year old linen garment that was confirmed as the world's oldest piece of woven clothing.

[1] The dress was discovered in 1913 during the second season of Sir Flinders Petrie's excavations of the Tarkhan necropolis.

[3] The linen was sent to the University College London for analysis, where it lay untouched for sixty five years.

[4] The dress was rediscovered in 1977 by conservationists at the Victoria and Albert Museum who were sorting through and cleaning 'funerary rags'.

[5] The main body of the dress was 76 centimetre wide straight piece of material.