beadnet dress Fashion History Timeline Cultural Themes Impulse Egypt Travels & Tours Ancient Egyptian dress made of beads, Faience and turquoise, Old Kingdom (2686 2181 BC). the bead dress were used for funerary purposes; It was put on the mummy and held divine representations linked The bead net dress, dating to Egypts 5th Dynasty around 2400 BC, was excavated at Qau in the 1920s and later reconstructed in the 1990s. Likely worn for ritual dancing, it was designed to be worn on A 4,500 year old Egyptian dress was painstakingly reassembled from approximately 7,000 beads found in an undisturbed tomb in Giza, Egypt. : r HistoricalCapsule This faience bead network dress is one of our most striking displays in the Hall of Ancient Egypt. #AncientEgypt #Houston #museum #eternity