Clothing has long served as more than simple protection from the weather or practicality in daily life. Across many civilizations, what people wore often revealed their wealth, occupation, education, ...

The evidence garnered through settlement archaeology, taken in combination with scenes and artefacts from mortuary contexts, provide us with a picture of the idealised daily life of the ancient ...

(via PBS Eons) Of course, the ancient Egyptians were probably not the first people to ever wear clothing, but we haven’t found any clothes older than the Tarkhan Dress. So how can we figure out when ...