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Gold sandals & toe stalls (funerary accoutrements) of an Egyptian queen during the reign of Thutmose III, 18th Dynasty, ca.1479–1425 B.C. - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.  

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Nippur Map 1400 BCE. The oldest known map ever found.

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The Middle East in 1400 BC

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Length of Very Sheer Linen Cloth | New Kingdom | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Length of Very Sheer Linen Cloth | New Kingdom | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This sheet was woven of superfine thread that must have been spun from flax harvested when the plants were very young. The length of cloth would have taken months of constant industry to weave.

This cloth must be that described by the Egyptians as "royal linen," the highest quality. The sheerness of the featherweight fabric and its silken softness lend credence to New Kingdom representations of elaborately pleated garments that allow the contours of the body and even the color of the skin to show through.

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Harvesting the plants to make into the thread used to weave by hand, cloth so fine that pleated clothing still allowed the contours of the body and color of the skin to be visible.

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Clay map of Nippur, Iraq from 1400 BC.

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Hurrian hymn to Nikkal (also known as the Hurrian cult hymn or A Zaluzi to the Gods, or simply h.6), the oldest surviving substantially complete work of notated music in the world, which was discovered in Ugarit in Syria in the early 1950s, and was preserved for 3400 years on a clay tablet, written in the Cuniform text