2,600-Year-Old Leather Armor Found In China Was Made By Neo-Assyrians [Maybe]

Ancient Origins ^ | 10 DECEMBER, 2021 - 13:58 | NATHAN FALDE

[BenLurkin]

( Lunstream / Adobe Stock)

Closeup images of the Yanghai leather scale armor fragment: A: inside; B: outside. (P. Wertmann / Quaternary International )

[BenLurkin]

ping

[Red Badger]

Cheap Chinese copy, of course........................

[Track9]

Does that mean they stole this technology too? They’re like the borg.

[dadfly]

two examples in the world huh? wow, maybe “rare” can still mean rare sometimes.

[reed13k]

“Chinese leather armor”

I don’t think they are using this term correctly.... the whole basis of the article is that the armor was made in Mesopotamia and not China...they should instead be calling it either middle-easter, Mesopotamian, or neo-assyrian armor.

The only reason to call it Chinese is because of where it was geographically unearthed.

[blueunicorn6]

The best protection for a Chinese warrior was a steaming serving of General Tso’s chicken.

[blueunicorn6]

The guy on the left is wearing a dress and the guy on the right has some kind of wrench.

So this ancient Chinese army was made up of transvestite plumbers.

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Tso‘s_chicken

[Little Ray]

They need to see if they can do some genetic analysis of the bones.

[wally_bert]

Harbor Freight the early centuries.

[ClearCase_guy]

They both bought the armor from some rich Corinthian guy.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin. Riders on the swarm ping.

[Red Badger]

LOL!...................

[Daffynition]

Are the Neo-Assyrians the same as the Neo-Sumerians?

It gets so confusing.

Seems some are bearded...and other clean shaven; wonder if that is the way to tell them apart?

[alternatives?]

“The only reason to call it Chinese is because of where it was geographically unearthed.”

I think today that is considered racist.

[epluribus_2]

Neo-Assyrians were Semitic, pre-Aramaeans/Babylonians.

Sumerians were, well, Sumerian with no proven contemporary or earlier/later relatives.

[BenLurkin]

Excellent.

[bunkerhill7]

if you look closely at the lower right hand corner it says “Made in China”.