This dress came out of the ground as a pile of beads. The linen holding it together had rotted, leaving roughly seven thousand loose faience beads scattered on and around a woman buried at Giza in the reign of Khufu.
It exists today because one archaeologist on the 1927 dig drew exactly where every bead was lying before anyone touched them.
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