Show Earliest Known Trousers The head of the ancient Babylonluj was carefully protected from the sml by various wrappings it was snlf llclent for the rest of the body to wesrf a thin woolen or linen garment bounli at the hips with a girdle or shawl over which sometimes another garment gar-ment was picturesquely draped Ill Babylonia and Assyria also head ad foot coverings wero subject to fashion but the long closefitting garment fort tunately never went out of styli Trousers tho unaesthetlcal Inventloil of the Medes aro first found on till y Parthian stele of about the first cet tury B C which was excavated Uj Assyria u |