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Encouraged by textile finds dating from Late Antiquity, discovered in Arsinoe (Egypt) at the beginning of the 1880s, the African explorer, Georg Schweinfurth, also decided to conduct excavation work there in 1884. Within two short years, he had unearthed around 450 textile fragments, as well as complete items of clothing and headdress, blankets and cushions. In 1887 these items came into the possession of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. Decades later, in 1923 and in the years 1934 to 1935 they were handed over to the Early Christian department of the then Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, now known as the Museum of Byzantine Art.
