The world’s oldest pants are a 3,000yr-old engineering marvel

[Eldorado]

With the help of an expert weaver, archaeologists have unraveled the design secrets behind the world’s oldest pants.

The 3,000-year-old wool trousers belonged to a man buried between 1000 and 1200 BCE in Western China.

To make them, ancient weavers combined four different techniques to create a garment specially engineered for fighting on horseback, with flexibility in some places and sturdiness in others.

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