"The survival of highly perishable textiles in the archaeological record is exceptional," Alice Stevenson, now a professor of museum archaeology at UCL, wrote in a 2016 study, and "the survival of complete, or almost complete, articles of clothing even more so."
Alice Stevenson, curator of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London, said a sale to a private buyer would have violated an agreement between the museum's namesake explorer and the St. Louis group that the antiquities be distributed to public museums, accessible to both researchers and th