Something Must Be Wrong With Me, I Haven't Talked About The Beadnet Dress In Forever.

Something must be wrong with me, I haven't talked about the beadnet dress in forever.

It consists of seven thousand faience beads in blue green and blue to imitate turquoise and lapis lazuli. It is 4600 years old (the threading is modern, but the beads were found in their original pattern so this reconstruction is as accurate as it can be). It is one of the most gorgeous garments in existence and was owned by a woman who was a contemporary of king Khufu.

The dress was found in her tomb in Giza, known as Tomb G 7440 Z, and it's the earliest known garment of this type.

trying to work on your mental health is like the derry girls trying to clean up fionnula’s chip shop and accidentally setting it on fire

Temple of Goddess Isis - Egypt

Book-shaped bench in the Library of Alexandria, Egypt (x)

Kdramas have so many tropes to explain away creepy power imbalances, but Her Private Life really found the only valid one in “Male lead said Fake Dating for Gay Rights”