The ancient gold fabric and an outline of a possible design pattern. Photo from F. Médard and F.Gauchet / Inrap Originally, the ancient cloth may have had a plant or floral-themed design ...

In 2020, archaeologists excavating an ancient burial ground in Autun, France, uncovered a sarcophagus containing a large piece of purple fabric with gold threads. Now, after several years of ...

It turned out to be a 1,600-year-old fabric fragment woven with gold threads. A team of archaeologists spent several months of 2020 excavating a massive ancient burial ground in Autun. The site ...