The dress from ancient Egypt, thousands of years old, is incredibly intricate and alluring, leaving viewers in awe.
At the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the largest museums in the United States, there is an exhibit featuring a magnificent and exquisite dress that is hard to believe is thousands of years old.
The thousands-year-old dress remains beautiful and modern.
The dress was reconstructed from around seven thousand beads found in an intact tomb of a woman contemporary with Pharaoh Khufu – the Pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty during the Old Kingdom of Egypt (2589-2566 BC). He was the second king of the Fourth Dynasty and is considered the master of the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Although the original threads of the dress have disintegrated, many beads remain in the original pattern of the dress on and around the mummy, allowing modern archaeologists to accurately recreate what the dress once looked like.
The colors of the beads have also faded over thousands of years, but archaeologists assert that the beads were originally blue to mimic the precious stones lapis lazuli and turquoise.
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston houses over 450,000 works of art and is one of the most magnificent museums in the Americas. The museum welcomes more than 1.2 million visitors each year and is one of the most visited art museums in the world.
The Museum of Fine Arts possesses rare materials from various artistic movements and cultures. Notably, it features artifacts from ancient Egypt, including sculptures, sarcophagi, and jewelry; a collection of 113 Dutch paintings; Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works from France; Chinese paintings, calligraphy, and court art; and a collection of Japanese art….
