FASHIONS DON'T CHANGE
FKEXCH GIBL IN MUMMY DBESS. Dr. Robert Mond. working on the tomb of Raniescs the Second, has come upon three mummies—one perhaps that of a soldier killed in the wars of Ancient Egypt.
The others are the bodies of a gold smith and his wife, a priestess of AnionRe, of the 24th dynasty (2640 years ago)
Under the outer wrappings of the priestess, her clothing of fine linen, now brown with age, had been laid neatly folded upon the body. In various places the garments had been darned. When Mile. Baud, attached to the excavation mission at Thebes, donned the robes, It was seen that they wore identical in form and fashion with those worn by the fellaheen women of to-day.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 76, 29 March 1924, Page 19
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