Not Egypt but Peru? A discovery at an ancient temple site in Peru means that indigo dye was used to color cotton at least 1,800 years before scientists had previously believed it was. By Christina Beck, Staff September 16, 2016. Save for later Saved ...

Take a good look at the piece of cloth pictured at the top of this story. That was made 6,000 years ago by people living on the coast of Peru. Now check out those faint blue lines running through it. Yes, they're washed out, but you can still see them ...

A 6,200-year-old fabric found in Peru has led scientists to a truly astonishing conclusion. Scientists have made a facinating discovery in the South American nation of Peru: the oldest known fabric ever found with blue dye on it at 6,200 years old. The ...

Diagram (left) and photo of 6,000-year-old fabric from Huaca Pieta, Peru. Photo by Lauren Urana/Jeffrey C. Splitstoser. Indigo dye for clothing is a lot older than the invention of blue jeans — almost 6,000 years older, to be exact. Scientists have ...

Cloths found in Peru provide earliest evidence of indigo dye use. The fabrics were 6,200 years old, which makes them older than the previously known oldest sample of indigo dye from Egypt. ( Lauren Urana via George Washington University ). Advertisement.

Indigo dye may be older — and more American — than previously assumed. In a study published Wednesday in Science Advances, researchers report scraps of indigo-dyed fabric found in Peru that dated back to 6,200 years ago. That makes these blue jean ...

A frayed and ancient textile fragment discovered in Peru represents the oldest piece of indigo-dyed fabric known, according to an anthropologist from George Washington University. One of the oldest pieces of cotton textile in existence, the fabric is 6 ...

A 6000-year-old ancient fabric discovered in Peru reveals that pre-historic Peruvians have used indigo blue dye long before Egyptians did. Pictured above is a piece of indigo plant dye. (Photo : Evan Izer/Wikimedia Commons). A 6000-year-old ancient ...

To detect the blue traces in the samples, a scientist separated out the dye components in the fabrics and then identified each component with a detector that analyzes how light interacts with chemical structures. Credit Jeffrey C. Splitstoser et al ...

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During a 2009 excavation of HuacaPrieta, a Peruvian ceremonial mound, archaeologists have discovered a 6,200-year-old piece of indigo dyed fabric. Upon testing the samples, researchers came to know that the cotton scraps were at least 1,800 years older ...

The scraps of woven cotton push the earliest use of the blue color to more than 6,000 years ago. Lauren Urana. The oldest indigo-dyed fabric ever found has been discovered in Peru, pushing back the use of this blue coloring to at least 6,200 years ago.

Indigo. This image shows a scrap of the indigo-dyed fabric (right) and a diagram of the cloth (left), highlighting the blue stripes. (Splitstoser et al., Science Advances). By Aaron Sidder. smithsonian.com. September 15, 2016 3:44PM. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0. 0 0 ...

Enlarge / A piece of 6,000-year-old yarn, woven into a sophisticated striped pattern. The blue stripes are dyed with Indigo blue, which doesn't appear elsewhere in the world for another 2,000 years. Science Advances. reader comments 89. Share this story.

Researchers found indigo-dyed textiles in Peru which appear to be at least 6,200 years old. The previous landmark for the earliest known use of the dye was Ancient Egypt, around 3,000 years ago. The cloth scraps were found in Huaca Prieta. At first ...

A stone seal dating back approximately 3,000 years was discovered by archaeologist Robert Mullins, Ph.D., professor of biblical studies at Azusa Pacific University, and his team during a summer dig at Abel Beth Maacah, a 35-acre tel in the northernmost ...

Discovery of the oldest indigo-dyed fabric from Peru has pushed back the earliest use of indigo by 1,500 years. Around 6,000 years back, the blue indigo dye was used by pre-Hispanic communities in Peru. The findings published in Science Advances are ...

The fabric found on the coast of Peru shows indigo-dyed fabric was produced around 6000 years ago. The ancient Egyptians were famed for creating beautiful blue hues of cloth but a discovery back in 2007 has found that Peruvians may have been the first ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest known pieces of indigo-dyed cotton in Huaca Prieta, northern Peru, and it goes to show that a good pair of jeans will last you forever — the materials are at least 6,000 years old. Photograph of specimen 2009.052.01.

Pieces of ancient textiles were recently found in Peru, and scientists consider them to be the oldest indigo-dyed fabric ever discovered. A researcher from the George Washington University has determined that this cotton piece is around 6,200 years old ...

A George Washington University researcher has identified a 6,200-year-old indigo-blue fabric from Huaca, Peru, making it one of the oldest-known cotton textiles in the world and the oldest known textile decorated with indigo blue. Credit: Lauren Urana.

An ancient fabric discovered in Peru which is believed to be more than 6000 years old proves that early prehispanic Peruvians were using indigo blue to dye long ahead of Egyptians. Huaca Prieta located on Peru's north coast is the location where ...

Peru cotton indigo WASHINGTON, D.C.—Live Science reports that Jeffrey Splitstoser of the George Washington University and Jan Wouters of University College London used high-performance liquid chromatography to detect indigo in pieces of ...

Pieces of 6,200-year-old indigo-blue fabric unearthed at a site in South America have been identified as the oldest known textile decorated with this color in the world. Before this discovery, the oldest blue-dyed fabric dated back to around 4,400 ...

It seems we don't know about our ancestors very well. A new find in Peru suggests that our ancestors knew how to extract indigo blue color nearly 6200 years ago and used it in coloring fabric, reveals a piece of cloth found in Peru. By The TeCake Staff -.

It is probably one of the most enduring fashion trends in the world, but it appears jeans may have far older roots than many could have imagined. Archaeologists have discovered a fragment of cotton fabric that was dyed 6,200 years ago with the ...

An excavation at Huaca Prieta in 2009 led to the discovery of the textile. Huaca Prieta is a desert area that offers nearly pristine archaeological preservation on the north coast of Peru. By News Nation Bureau | Updated On : September 16, 2016 12:58 ...

Archaeologists are excited by their latest discovery. They have recently found the world's oldest dyed material, and it originates from Ancient Peru. It seems like the people inhabiting the Andes used indigo blue dye to color fabrics, and this may ...

The blue indigo dye commonly used in today's jeans was used by pre-Hispanic communities in Peru around 6,000 years ago. Key points. Well-preserved, 6,000-year-old cotton fabric from Peru contains indigo dye; Discovery pushes back earliest known use ...