Amazing 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Bead-Net Dress Found In Giza Tomb Restored

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5. They were great weavers and she might have

at least designed that honeycomb fabric herself, if not woven it herself. It's a fantastic party dress, topped off by a gorgeous necklace. The whole thing would have been topped by a heavily styled wig. She must have been a stunner in that outfit.

This is stuff that I love, the amazing objects owned by real people. In this case, she had to be a pretty wealthy head of household to sport that kind of necklace and go places that required that kind of dress. Drag that elaborate was generally reserved for the upper crust of society, maybe the wife of a Pharaoh 'b brother, deceased to ensure power but his wife and children maintained in style.