making it the smallest fish scale armor piece excavated during archaeological investigations of Han Dynasty ruins,” he explained. Additionally, archaeologists discovered that the armor had been ...

Known as "fish-scale" armor due to its layers of scales ... mostly been unearthed from tombs dating back to the Han Dynasty. Usually, armor pieces measure between 4-10 centimeters.

Made of iron, copper, and leather, the multi-material armor scales are the first and smallest of its kind ever discovered in Han Dynasty archaeology. Found in the west part of the outer coffin of ...

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty (206BC-AD220) – in the first discovery ...

Chinese archaeologists have reconstructed 6,000 composite armour scales unearthed from the tomb of Liu He – the deposed ninth emperor of the Han dynasty (206BC - AD220) – in the first ...