In 2013, a nearly complete leather scale armor was found in the tomb of an approx. 30-year-old male near the modern-day city of Turfan in Northwest China. This unprecedented find, ...

In Yanghai cemetery site, Turfan, the remains of one leather scale armour were discovered. The armour, datable to 786–543 BC, was originally made of 5,444 smaller scales and 140 larger scales ...

While the only other well-preserved leather scale armor found that has a known provenance, was discovered in the ancient Egyptian tomb of King Tutankhamun, from the 14th century B.C., ...

The ancient leather scale armor could be dated to the period between 786 and 543 BC. (D.L. Xu, P. Wertmann, M. Yibulayinmu.)In the remote Yanghai cemetery near Turfan, Northwest China, a team of ...

From Roman "fish scale" armor to Japanese samurai suits, ... This suit of leather armor was found in a box when his tomb, in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, was opened in 1922.

Specialized photography uncovered signs of battle scars on the 18-year-old pharaoh’s 3,000-year-old leather war armor. A ... how the overlapping leather scales used in the armor were ...

"Noticeably, no scale armor, not even a single armor scale of leather or other material, were found in any of the other 520 excavated tombs of the Yanghai cemetery," the authors point out. "Nor are ...

Whereas Han Dynasty scales reached a size of about 1.57 to 3.94 inches wide, the refined armor scales in Liu He’s tomb were unusually small at .39 inches wide and .02 inches thick, putting the ...

The armour was comprised of more than 5,000 leather scales and was so intricately crafted that its design looks like the overlapping scales of a fish. Related articles Truss poised to deny EU £ ...

Analysis of leather armor found in the boy king’s tomb could indicate that he even may have seen battle, according to a documentary that aired recently on Channel 5 in the U.K. Experts used ...

However, “The smallest armor piece” from the Marquis of Haihun tomb “is about 1 cm wide and 0.2 cm thick, making it the smallest fish scale armor piece excavated during archaeological ...