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Sunday, March 11, 2018

Tartan fashion began with ancient GREEK loincloth

Brian Wilton, former director of the Scottish Tartans Authority, is convinced that tartan emerged as early as 1,440BC after the discovery of a Bronze Age warrior's tomb outside the ancient GREEK city of Pylos, near Crete. Archaeologists unearthed an intricately engraved, thumb-sized sealstone — used for ...


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